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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA

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^ NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

MARY DEPUE OGDEN

ADVISORY BOARD

MRS. GARRET A. HOBART,
PATERSON.

MRS. JOHN MOSES.
TRENTON.

MISS ELIZABETH STRONG,
NEW BRUNSWICK.

MISS MARGARET O. HAINES,

BURLINGTON.

MISS SARAH NATHALIE DOUGHTY,

ATLANTIC CITY.

MRS. WILLIAM NELSON,
PATERSON.

MARY ROBESON SMITH,
BELVIDERE.

VOLUME III

MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

1917

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MARSH, Craig A.,

Distinguished Lawyer, Honored Citizen.

A list of the well known men of New
Jersey would be incomplete if it did not
contain a record of the late Craig Adams
Marsh, who for more than twenty-eight
years served as Corporation Counsel of
the city of Plainfield. As a man and as a
citizen he displayed a personal worth and
an excellence of character that not only
commanded the respect of those with
whom he associated, but won him the
warmest personal admiration and the
staunchest friendships. The name Marsh
was prominent in Great Britain for many
centuries before the discovery of Amer-
ica, many of the name occupying posi-
tions of importance and honor. The arms
of the family is as follows : Gules, a
horse's head couped argent, between three
crosses crosslet fitchee of the same. Crest :
A griffin's head couped, ducally gorged
or, holding in the beak a rose, gules,
leaved vert. Motto : Semper paratus.

As early as 1174 a Sir Stephen Marsh,
Lord of Newton, etc., in Norfolkshire, is
mentioned, and from that period onward
the name among both "patricians and
plebeians" fills up a goodly share of space
in the English and Scotch, and also Irish
records. At least six of the name, neither
closely related to the other, came to New
England more than two centuries and a
half ago to seek new homes amid new
surroundings and to broaden their field
of activity, there being greater possibil-
ities in the New than the Old World, and
at the present time their descendants are
to be found from Maine to California,
many of them having gained renown in

the arts and sciences, in literature and
law, in medicine and statecraft, and in
the Christian ministry.

( I ) Samuel Marsh, the progenitor of
the line here under consideration, was
born about 1620, died in September, 1683.
He was a resident of Essexshire, Eng-
land. The first mention of his name in
this country was in the year 1641 when
his name appears on the Boston records,
and about four years later he removed to
New Haven, Connecticut, where he re-
sided for about twenty years, and then
removed to Elizabethtown. New Jersey,
where he spent the remainder of his days.
On April 7, 1646, he was serving in the
militia of New Haven, for it is stated that
because of sickness "his absence from
traynings was accepted of the court as a
sufficient excuse." On May 2. 1648, he
took the oath of "fidellitie" to the govern-
ment. When the English gained posses-
sion of New Jersey from the Dutch, he
took the oath of allegiance to the King
(Charles II.) on February 16, 1665, and
his name appears, curiously, for pulling
up the fence of one Richard Mitchell, to
whom the Governor had given a lot. but
whose title to the same the town did not
acknowledge. Eight persons were in-
cluded in the bill of indictment, the
charge being riot, and of course with
the Governor, who was Carteret, on the
side of the prosecution, they were found
guilty and each fined five pounds (the
chief culprit seven pounds) "to the use of
His Majesty." They used no more force
than was necessary to remove what they
considered an obstruction.

After the removal of Mr. Marsh to
Elizabethtown. he became one of the first

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"Associates" of the town, and a man of
property and responsibility, as we fre-
quently find him going on bonds for
others. On November 30, 1676, he took
out a patent for two hundred and five
acres of land in six parcels, including a
"house lot" of seven acres, and other
parcels of respectively, eighteen, one hun-
dred, sixty, fourteen, and six acres, on
the left bank of the Rahway river, near
Trembly Point. At the same time his
sun, Samuel, Jr., took out a patent at
Elizabeth Town for one hundred acres in
three parcels, two of which were also on
the "Rahawak" (Rahway) river. In his
will, dated June 10, 1683, probated Feb-
ruary 24, 1685, his widow Comfort, ex-
ecutrix, his residence is described as "at
Wawanday," which must have been a
corruption of "Rahway."

Mr. Marsh married, probably shortly
after his arrival in New Haven, Com-
fort (surname unknown), undoubtedly of
Puritan ancestry. Children: Mary, born
1648, probably died unmarried ; Samuel,
February 12, 1650, died 1684 or 1685,
married Mary Trimmins ; Comfort, Au-
gust 22, 1652, married Joseph Meeker;
Hannah, July 22, 1655, probably died un-
married; Elizabeth, December 27, 1657;
John. May 2, 1661, married Elizabeth
Clark or Clerk ; Joseph, of whom further.
These children were identified with the
original church established at Elizabeth-
town at the time the first settlers pur-
chased their land there, which was Con-
gregational or Independent. Subsequently
many of them became Presbyterians.

(IIs) Joseph, third son and youngest
child of Samuel and Comfort Marsh, was
born at New Haven, Connecticut, April
1, 1663, died in December, 1723. He
acquired a practical education in the
schools of his day, and his active career
was devoted to the occupation of mill-
ing, and probably farming, conducting
the former occupation in such a way as

to reap abundant reward. He was public-
spirited to the highest degree, ever for-
ward in encouraging enterprises which
would advance the interests of his com-
munity, and in the year 1710 was chosen
to represent the county of Essex in the
Assembly, performing his duties in a
meritorious manner. He married, about
the year 1697, Sarah (perhaps Clark),
who bore him eight children, among
whom was Samuel, of whom further. The
will of Mr. Marsh, which was proved De-
cember 21, 1723, mentioned his widow
and six children, and it also described
him as "of Elizabeth Town," though re-
siding near the present Rahway.

(Ill) Samuel (2), eldest son and sec-
ond child of Joseph and Sarah Marsh,
was born near Rahway, New Jersey,
about the year 1700, died about the year
1772. He was reared and educated in
the community in which he was born,
residing there throughout his entire life-
time, and his last residence, enclosed with
shingles fastened on with wrought nails,
is said to be still standing at the corner
of Main street and Elm avenue, in what
was once known as "Bridgetown," or
"Lower Rahway." He took an active
and prominent part in public affairs, and
in 1740 was one of the charter aldermen
of Elizabeth Town, when that town took
in a large district of adjoining terri-
tory. He was a prominent member of
the Woodbridge, Rahway and Plainfield
Monthly Meeting, presumably becoming
a Quaker through the influence of his
wives, who were of that religious faith,
his forbears having been of the Congre-
gational or Presbyterian denomination.
He married (first) Mary Shotwell, who
died about 1741 ; married (second) Mary
Shotwell, in 1743, and by these two mar-
riages to women of the same name be-
came the father of fourteen children, nine
sons and five daughters, among whom
was William, of whom further.

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(IV) William, third son and third
child of Samuel (2) and Alary (Shotwell)
Marsh (the first wife), was born near
Rahway, New Jersey, December 12, 1732,
died about October, 1792. He also was a
Quaker in his church relations, although
little else is known of him, except that in
1753 he married Sarah, daughter of Wil-
liam and Susanna (Cowperthwait) Web-
ster, of Plainfield, New Jersey, who was
a Quaker, as was also her ancestors for
many generations. According to the rec-
ords of the Woodbridge, Rahway and
Plainfield Monthly Meetings, there were
fourteen children born to them, among
whom was William, of whom further.

(V) William (2), son of William (1)
and Sarah (Webster) Marsh, was born
near Rahway, New Jersey, August 12,
1754. He spent his entire lifetime in the
section of the State wherein he was born,
and his occupation was probably that of
a farmer. He may have been the "Wil-
liam Marsh of Essex county" who served
in the Revolutionary War. His life was
one of usefulness and activity, during
which he strove most earnestly to fulfill
every duty and responsibility, and hav-
ing been honorable in all his dealings
with mankind, won the esteem of all with
whom he was brought in contact. He
married, March 25, 1775, Sarah Frazee,
who bore him twelve children, among
whom was Frazee, of whom further. She
was of Presbyterian ancestry, and the
probability is that her husband also be-
came a Presbyterian.

(VI) Frazee, youngest child of Wil-
liam (2) and Sarah (Frazee) Marsh,
usually known as "Captain Marsh," was
born near Rahway, New Jersey, April 19,
1798, died in Plainfield, New Jersey, Feb-
ruary 28, 1874. He acquired a practical
education which thoroughly qualified him
for an active and successful career, and
a keynote to his success was his execu-
tive force and masterv of detail in what-

ever engaged his attention. He was an
important factor in the development of
Plainfield, having been one of its promi-
nent merchants, and probably the great-
est compliment that can be paid him is
that he made himself an honor to the
commercial world, as well as a credit to
the mercantile community in which he
resided. He was equally active and
prominent in public life, frequently mak-
ing addresses upon political topics, and
he held a State commission as captain of
the militia. He was a firm believer in
education, and desired for others all the
knowledge they could secure. From one
of his numerous preserved addresses on
that subject we quote these paragraphs
to show his exalted style of language and
excellent reasoning powers :

There was a time when knowledge was made
the monopoly of a few; when it was purposely
concealed under the garb of monkish priestcraft,
nursed in cloisters, and dispensed to the people
with a very sparing hand. But, thanks to high
heaven, thanks to the stern patriotism of our
forefathers who gave us liberty, those dark days
of superstition have passed away, and it is now
known that knowledge, like gold, becomes the
brighter the more it is handled. Knowledge has
also furnished us with the means of dispersing
those thick clouds of ignorance which so long
enslaved the human mind. When the voice of
the tempest is up, and hill speaks to hill in
vibrating thunder, instead of imagining we are
visited by the judgments of a vindictive Being,
the student of nature, the man of a cultivated
mind, beholds only a beautiful Benefactor; views
Him destroying the noxious vapors of disease,
purifying the air for the use of His creatures,
flinging over earth a freshened verdure, and
scattering new odors from every flower.

Thus to the man of a cultivated mind, every
flower, every leaf, every pebble, may become
tutors in the great school of Nature to instruct
the mind and improve the heart. The day has
now arrived when he whom wishes to learn
hardly needs a master, for with only this assist-
ance some of the greatest scholars and philoso-
phers have formed themselves.

But, to obtain this preeminence, we must ex-
pect to use exertion. Without it as well might

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the hapless herdsman, whose hut is in the path-
way of the thundering avalanche, hope that the
ponderous mass might be stayed in its midway
career. . . . Knowledge is not inherited from
parents, nor is it the gift of high birth or great
wealth, but the result of our great endeavors.

Mr. Marsh's views on slavery, after-
ward also held by his son Warren, were
well expressed in the closing paragraphs
of an address on that theme delivered in
1855:

We are often told that should we let the slave
go free it would render the master poor. I
would say then, better be poor than unjust; bet-
ter beg than steal; better die than tramp on a
fellow-being and reduce him to a brute for sel-
fish purposes. For we have been assured by
Him who cannot lie that it will profit a man but
little to gain the whole world and lose his own
soul.

The following was spoken of Mr. Marsh
by his grandson, Craig A. Marsh :

He wielded a trenchant pen in the discussion
of public questions in the press, and at a time
when it required courage and independence in a
high degree to do it, because it threatened loss of
business, and social hostilities; he contributed
weighty arguments against the then recognized
national institution of slavery. He was self-
made, but nevertheless a scholar. When he
asked one of his grandchildren who was home
from college on a vacation, how high a flag
pole was that cast a shadow of fifteen feet at
high noon in the latitude of Plainfield, and the
young sophomore said that he could figure it out
by trigonometry and the table of logarithms, but
that he had not brought the book home with
him, the old gentleman took a scrap of paper,
figured out the height of the flag pole by the
rule of three, and quietly remarked: "I never
had a college education, but I don't think I
missed much if you can't use it without carrying
the books around with you."

Mr. Marsh married, November 6, 1818,
Phebe, born 1791, died December 2, 1859,
daughter of Aaron and Lydia Tucker.
She bore him seven children, among
whom was Warren, of whom further.

Mr. Marsh married (second) September
8, 1 86 1, Mary, daughter of David and
Harriet Van Kirk. No children.

(VII) Warren, third child of Frazee
and Phebe (Tucker) Marsh, was born at
Short Hills, south of Plainfield, New
Jersey, February 28, 1824, died in Plain-
field, January 12, 1898. He was educated
in the public schools of Plainfield, and
later added considerably to the knowl-
edge thus gained by reading and observa-
tion. In his early career he met with
obstacles which to others less hopeful
and less courageous would seem unsur-
mountable, but by perseverance and in-
dustry he overcame them and gained for
himself a position among the prominent
and influential business men of Plainfield.
He was one of the leading contractors
and builders in that city, retiring from
active business some fifteen years prior
to his death. During his active career
many of the principal buildings of Plain-
field were put up under his direction.
About the year 1855 he built at 45 (now
301-303) East Third street, then a fine
residential street, the first brick dwelling
erected in Plainfield, which was com-
modious and attractive, and which was
occupied by him until about the year
1889, when he purchased a house at 340
Franklin Place, where he resided until
his death. The property is still owned
by his heirs.

To a natural dignity of manner, Mr.
Marsh added a geniality that won him
hosts of friends and made him welcome
everywhere. Fie was a man of strongly
marked characteristics, was thoroughly
optimistic in his views, of absolute loyalty
to friends and kindred, hospitable and
generous, with a ready sympathy for
those in affliction or need. He was a man
of few words, but was positive in his con-
victions, which were generally right. A
clear evidence of this is the fact that dur-

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ing the excitement of the early abolition
days preceding the Civil War, he con-
sistently voted for men for high office
who favored the abolition of slavery. He
was a member of Jerusalem Lodge, No.
26, Free and Accepted Masons, in which
he served as master.

Mr. Marsh married (first) Ann Eliza,
born May 2, 1823, died March 25, 1852,
daughter of Jeptha Holton, of Plainfield.
He married (second) December 22, 1855,
Kate Harned, born in New York City,
May 1, 1838, died July 30, 1905, daughter
of Thomas R. Adams, of New York City.
Children: Craig Adams, of whom fur-
ther; Warren Henry, who resides in
Plainfield ; Ada Grace, who resides in
Plainfield, unmarried. Mrs. Marsh was
a woman of independent spirit, lofty cour-
age and unusual intelligence, as shown
by her brilliant conversation and her vari-
ous contributions to the press. Amid the
usual cares of her early married life she
always found time to read good books,
and from the first she was interested in
those things which she knew would give
her children superior advantages in life.

(VIII) Craig Adams, eldest son of
Warren and Kate Harned (Adams)
Marsh, was born in Plainfield, New Jer-
sey, December 8, 1856, died there Novem-
ber 12, 1910. He attended the public
school of Plainfield, graduating from the
high school in 1872, in his sixteenth year.
His mind turned to Princeton as an edu-
cational institution which he should like
to make his alma mater, but his chief pre-
ceptor suggested he should enter Union
College at Schenectady, New York, this
preceptor being himself a graduate of
that institution. Having sent his name
to Union College, and being informed
that he was too young to enter, he con-
cluded to spend one year more in a post-
graduate course in the high school, which
proved to his advantage, as it enabled
him to enter Union as a sophomore. Some

of his classmates who have made repu-
tations for themselves in the world were :
James R. Truax, Ph. D., who became in-
structor in Languages and Literature in
Union College ; Rev. John W. Doremus,
of Bryan, Texas; Mr. Homer Greene, of
Honesdale, Pennsylvania; Mr. Frank
Tweedy, of Washington, D. C. ; Rev.
Dr. A. V. V. Raymond, later president
of Union College ; the late Rev. Dr.
John G. Lansing, professor in Rutgers
College, and Mr. Justice William G.
Rudd, of Albany, New York. While a
student in the high school he was fond
of athletics, in which he excelled, and
this fondness followed him at Union,
where he was captain of the college base-
ball nine, and not only became an expert
player, but won the "President's prize"
for best ball playing. At college he be-
came a member of the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity. He was elected respondent
by the "House of Representatives" for
the anniversary exercises in June, 1875,
and was chosen orator for class day at
the graduation, when his standing in his
class was ninety-five, an unusual mark
of scholarship.

When Mr. Marsh graduated from
Union College in 1876, he was not de-
cided as to whether he would enter the
ministry or study law, but after careful
deliberation he chose the law. He entered
the office of Dodd & Ackerman, of New-
ark, the senior partner, Hon. Amzi Dodd.
having served as Vice-Chancellor of New
Jersey from 1871 to 1875, and again from
1881 to 1882. After spending one year
in this office he entered Columbia Law
School in New York City, in 1877, and
was graduated therefrom with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts on May 14, 1879,
after a two years' course. During his
course at the law school his eyes became
weak from overuse, and then he found
his wife (having married in the mean-
time) his best helpmeet in a situation

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which he had not expected. She read to
him law book after law book, case after
case, while he listened and absorbed the
common law, statutes, opinions and court
dicta. It proved a source of enjoyment
to both, and enabled him to complete
his course in the required time.

After his graduation from Columbia
Law School, he entered the offices of
Suydam & Jackson, in Plainfield, where
he remained for a few months. He was
admitted to the New Jersey bar at the
November term of the Supreme Court,
1879, as an attorney-at-law. Shortly
afterward he opened an office for the
practice of his profession in the Dunlap
building, where he remained for many
years. He soon was in receipt of a good
practice, which steadily increased in
volume and importance, due to the fact
that he achieved success in the justices'
courts and in the Union circuit. Mr.
Marsh early acquired a reputation for
successfully defending alleged criminals.
He did this often in the city police court,
but also in the higher State courts, and
at various times in the Federal courts at
Trenton and in New York City. He had
a great horror of unjust convictions in
the criminal courts, and a most hearty
contempt for sensational petitions. Among
the press clippings which he preserved
at the beginning of his practice and car-
ried about in his pocket were two which
greatly impressed him. The first may in
part account for the earnestness and vigor
with which he always so endeavored to
defend a client as to make sure the jury
would give heed to a "reasonable doubt,"
and not convict an innocent man of a
crime. The second was upon the great
ease with which petitions could be pro-
cured, and it aided to prove to him that
they were of no real significance, espe-
cially in criminal cases. During his early
years of practice he had several students

who admired him both as teacher and
friend.

The rapidity with which Mr. Marsh
rose in his profession, so far as admission
to the various courts and the highest ap-
pointments within the gift of his native
city would indicate, may be best gathered
from the following dates: He was sworn
in as an attorney on November 6, 1879.
Three years later, at the corresponding
term of court, which was at the earliest
possible moment under the rules of the
court, he was admitted as counsellor.
Nine months previous to this, however,
on February 6, 1882, he was appointed a
Master in Chancery by Chancellor Run-
yon. On May 1, 1882, after but two and
one-half years practice, he was appointed
Corporation Counsel of the city of Plain-
field, a position he retained through all
administrations, Republican, Democratic,
Independent and Prohibitionist, until his
decease. On February 20, 1883, he was
appointed Supreme Court Commissioner,
which authorized him to take testimony
upon reference. On December 15, 1886,
he was admitted to practice before the
Circuit Court of the United States for
the District of New York. On March
15, 1887, he was admitted to practice be-
fore the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Third Circuit, including
New Jersey, and also the United States
District Court, District of New Jersey.
He was also a Special Master in Chan-
cery. He also received the degree of
Master of Arts from his alma mater, June
14, 1885.

Mr. Marsh was only twenty-five years
of age when he was appointed Corpora-
tion Counsel of the city of Plainfield by
Hon. L. V. F. Randolph, who was then
mayor. Undoubtedly he was the young-
est man ever appointed to the responsible
position of Corporation Counsel in any
city in the State of New Jersey, and few

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have received such an appointment when
they were simply attorneys and not coun-
sellors. But the result justified the ap-
pointment to a remarkable degree. From
the outset his written legal opinions to
the municipal body were brief or lengthy,
as the occasion demanded ; were lucid,
were exact, and were always accepted as
correct law. The questions submitted to
him for his determination in writing by
the Common Council were numerous and
varying, and they concerned the accept-
ance and regulation of dedicated prop-
erty, assessment and revocation of taxes,
terms and duties of the city officials, extra
compensations of officials, authority of
the city over shade trees in the streets,
the powers of council over the liquor
question, duties of election officers, power
to sprinkle streets at public expense, the
legality of votes when the voters had
temporarily removed their residence, and
hundreds of similar questions, many of
which required tedious and exhaustive
consideration. It is doubtful if any other
counsel in the State ever had more puz-
zling questions to settle, or gave as close
attention to the duties of the office. Be-
sides his numerous written opinions, he
was constantly called upon by the vari-
ous city officials, chairmen of committees
and heads of departments, including the
Chief of Police, for instructions upon
almost every conceivable municipal topic.
Their rule of conduct in cases of doubt
was invariably that which was laid down
to them explicitly by the Corporation
Counsel. He also was interviewed on all
manner of interesting public questions
by the reporters of the press. During
the first five years of his counselship
he attended all meetings of the "City
Fathers," but afterward, finding it was
too much of a drain upon his time, and
not based upon any necessity, he only
attended meetings under a previous ar-
rangement, or when sent for. Summing

up his conduct in the office of counsel of
his native city, it clearly appears that in
the advice he tendered, and in the digni-
fied, straightforward course he pursued,
he always did that which he believed to
be for the best interests of the munici-
pality and its citizens, while doing injus-
tice to no one, and that he could not
tolerate even the suspicion of performing
a dishonorable official act. It is said of
him that he had accomplished as much
as many accomplish at eighty years of
age.

Mr. Marsh, needless to say, exerted a
great influence on the affairs of his
native city ; his work was widely ex-
tended, and although he has passed on
from the scene of his earthly labor his
influence is felt and recognized. He
was public-spirited and progressive, ever
ready to forward a movement that tended
toward morality, always anxious that
right principles in politics and citizenship
should be in the ascendant, always mind-
ful of those little attentions to the older
members of the bar to whom he looked as
ensamples of cultured intelligence, always
eager to increase the standards of pro-
fessional character among young attor-
neys. Upon the announcement at the
legislative session of 1892 that a bill was
introduced to legalize race-track gam-
bling and that it would probably pass,
Mr. Marsh, with the late Rev. E. M. Rod-
man and one or two others, called a pub-
lic meeting at Music Hall, Plainfield.
which was presided over by Mayor Gil-
bert, and at it Mr. Marsh spoke with a
fearlessness, vigor and burning eloquence
that he seldom, if ever, surpassed. But
the act passed, and there was nothing to
do save wait another year, and then if
possible elect such men to the legislature
as would secure its repeal. Accordingly
the Plainfield Branch of the State Citi-
zens' League was organized, and Mr.
Marsh prepared its constitution and was

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one of the active members of its execu-
tive committee. In 1904 Mr. Marsh was
elected president of the Union County
Bar Association, was reelected in 1905,
and in 1906 declined to allow his name
to be used. Notwithstanding this, he
was unanimously elected and served for
the year 1906. He was a charter member
of the State Bar Association ; during the
years from 1901 to 1906 he served as a
member, and later as chairman of the
committee on admissions, on the commit-
tee for the improvement of the judicial
system, and on the committee on legal
education. In 1906-07 he was a member
of the board of directors, and from 1908
to 1909 he was second vice-president.
From then until his death he was on the
special committee upon the judiciary
amendments, and the committee on ethics
and grievances. He was a member of
the Union County Lincoln Association,
and a member of its executive committee.
A large number of clubs and associations
were incorporated through Mr. Marsh,
who prepared the necessary papers. In
1881, when the Plainfield Public Library
was formed, Mr. Marsh was one of its
first board of directors. He was inter-
ested in the public park of the city, and
the Town Improvement Association, of
whose advisory committee he was a mem-
ber, also had his earnest support, and his
contribution of time, thought and money.
So did the Children's Home, Muhlenberg
Hospital, and other similar institutions.
He was a member of Anchor Lodge, No.
149, Free and Accepted Masons, in which
he was installed May 25, 1886, passed
October 26, 1886, raised November 23,
1886; made senior deacon, 1888; senior
warden, 1889; worshipful master, Janu-
ary 14, 1890; retired and became past
worshipful master, December 28, 1890.
On February 23, 1892, he was presented
by the lodge with an elaborate and costly

jewel accompanied by an apron. He was
made a thirty-second degree Mason, Jan-
uary 7, 1888. He was also a member of
the Plainfield High School Alumni Asso-
ciation, Union College and Columbia Law
School Alumni associations, City Bar
Association of Plainfield, International
Law Association, New York Law Insti-
tute, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Plain-
field, Watchung Hunt, Riding and Driv-
ing, Park and Sangerbund clubs, Mat-
tano Club of Elizabeth, Citizens' League,
State Charities Aid Association, Plain-
field Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, the Plainfield Young Men's
Christian Association and the McAll Mis-
sion. In politics he was always a Repub-
lican.

Mr. Marsh was a personal friend and
admirer of Rev. Dr. A. V. V. Raymond,
when the latter was pastor of Trinity Re-
formed Church, Plainfield, the friendship
dating from their college days at Sche-
nectady. Previous to Dr. Raymond's
call to Plainfield in 1881, Mr. Marsh had
gone to the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian
Church, of which his mother was a mem-
ber and in which he was baptized as a
child, but he then felt it incumbent to
change to Trinity, and he continued
to attend there until Dr. Raymond went
to Albany, in 1887. Then he immediately
returned to the Crescent Avenue Church,
and continued to worship there until his
death, and was a most faithful attendant
upon its services. His reading, aside from
the law, was always of an elevating char-
acter, and of all the poets, Shakespeare
easily stood first in his affections. He
was a careful reader of good newspapers,
and from his college days cut out the best
articles and preserved them. He was a
lover of good music, had a natural ear for
music, and possessed a fine bass voice,
and was a fine performer on the flute.
The recreation from which he received

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most pleasure in later years was that of
horseback riding, which he felt was the
means of greatly benefitting his health.

Mr. Marsh married, January 10, 1877,
Mary Catherine, daughter of Ransom
Baldwin and Elizabeth Ann (Winne)
Moore, formerly of Troy, New York,
where she was born, although then re-
siding at Olivet, Michigan. Mr. Moore
was a publisher in Troy, the firm in 1851
being Merriam & Moore. Later Mr. Mer-
riam left the firm, and Mr. Moore con-
tinued the business under the name of
Moore & Nimes, until 1869. This was
the first firm to manufacture terrestrial
and celestial globes. In 1870 Mr. Moore
removed to Michigan, and there estab-
lished a private banking house. Mr. and
Mrs. Marsh were the parents of one child,
Craig Adams Jr., born March 3, 1878, died
July 9, 1879.

Upon the death of Mr. Marsh, which
occurred November 12, 1910, in com-
memoration of his life and professional
character, and as a recognition of his
faithful service, a proclamation was
issued by the mayor that the public build-
ings be draped for thirty days, and official
action was also taken by the common
council and many other public bodies.
The press of the city and State published
editorial tributes, and many expressions
of regret and appreciation of his personal
worth and fidelity to his trust were re-
ceived from members of the bar and
others. Letters were received from ex-
Chancellor William J. Magie, ex-Justice
Bennet Van Syckel, ex-Justice Gilbert
Collins, Judge Benjamin A. Vail, Judge
Edward S. Atwater, Vice-Chancellor
Frederic W. Stevens, Hon. John Ulrich,
Mr. Joseph C. Allen, Mr. Richard V.
Lindabury, Mr. Frank Bergen, Mr. Hal-
sey M. Barrett, Mr. Jackson E. Reynolds.
ex-Mayor John H. Van Winkle, Mr.
George S. Clay, Justice William P. Rudd,
ex-Mayor L. V. F. Randolph, ex-Mayor

Alexander Gilbert, ex-Mayor William L.
Saunders and Rev. Charles A. Eaton,
D. D. Personal letters were also received
from Mayor Charles J. Fisk, Dr. George
W. Endicott, Mr. E. E. Phillips, Hon. S.
S. Swackhamer, President Charles A.
Richmond, Hon. Bartow S. Weeks, Jus-
tice Samuel Kalisch, Hon. Henry C. Pit-
ney, ex-Justice Van Syckel, ex-Justice
Gilbert Collins, Hon. P. R. von Mindon,
Mr. F. J. Hubbard, Mr. James L. Griggs
and Mrs. Dempsey. The following is the
tribute of respect from ex-Chancellor Wil-
liam J. Magie:

When Mr. Marsh came to the bar, he had the
good sense to perceive that he did not know all
the law. He therefore entered upon a course of
systematic reading and study, which, he has told
me, he continued to do even in the midst of his
active practice. He thus acquired an extensive
knowledge of legal principles. He possessed the
tact and acquired the facility of applying those
principles in the actual conduct of affairs, and
particularly to the facts of the cases in which
he was employed. When his clients discovered
his sound knowledge and his ability in managing
their affairs, success came to him almost at once.
It came so rapidly that it might have over-
whelmed a less methodical and industrious man.
That was not the case with him.

No pressure of business ever permitted him to
appear before any Court with a case unprepared.
He disclosed in every case that he not only
familiarized himself with the points on which he
could rely, but he was prepared to meet the
points which his opponent might present. He,
therefore, early obtained what is sometimes
called "the ear of the Court," by which I mean
no favoritism or partiality of the Judges but
their feeling that, when he presented a case,
what he said was entitled to consideration.

He had not only convictions, but the courage
of his convictions. He was not shaken by the
arguments of his opponents or even by the sug-
gestions of the Court. He maintained his posi-
tions with courteous persistence, but if the Court
ruled against him he submitted with dignity.
With his natural ability, his acquired knowledge
and his diligence, he attained a position among
the foremost of the Bar of the whole State.

I have not infrequently called the attention of
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Bar to the career of Mr. Marsh as an example
which they might well follow. When he had
attained success and established an excellent
practice, he did not leave the place of his birth
and residence for any great city. He remained
among his own people, and, under those circum-
stances, built up a practice of which he had
reason to be proud, and which, no doubt, was as
remunerative as the average practice of the lead-
ing lawyers in the great cities, when the increase
of expense is taken into consideration. His con-
tinued residence in Plainfield further enabled
him to exercise a valuable influence in the man-
agement of the affairs of the community, which
is rarely if ever obtained by a lawyer in the
hurry of practice in a large city.

Mr. Marsh was essentially a high-minded man.
He did not think or act in a narrow way. He
brought every question to the test of probity
and honor, and no one ever met him without
feeling that he was a man to be implicitly
trusted.

The following is a tribute from ex-Jus-
tice Gilbert Collins :

I came to know Craig A. Marsh soon after his
admission to the Bar, and watched his career
with interest. Meeting him frequently when we
were both in attendance at the Courts of Tren-
ton waiting for causes to come on for argument,
our acquaintance soon developed into a friend-
ship which strengthened with the passing years.
I met him both as opposing and as associate
counsel in litigation, and acquired a great re-
spect for his ability as a lawyer, which was
tested when we were associates. One is prone
to overestimate an adversary; but association
brings out the strength or weakness of a col-
league. Later, I had the opportunity to observe
Mr. Marsh from a judicial point of view, and
still later, upon my return to the practice of the
law, I was thrown with him considerably in the
maturity of his powers.

The keynote of his work as a lawyer was its
thoroughness. He considered a legal question
in every aspect, and overlooked nothing that
could bear upon it. After he had decided to
accept a client's retainer, he spared no effort for
effective service. His preparation, either for
attack or defense, was remarkable. I never knew
him to be taken unawares in the trial of a cause ;
every movement of his opponent was antic-
ipated, and he was ready with his response. If
anything, he was too particular in preparation
for a trial or hearing, and in conducting it, thus

entailing undue strain upon the nervous force. I
remember hearing an associate on the Bench
say of him: "Mr. Marsh tries his cases with a
microscope." This was not intended for dis-
paragement, for the same Judge had a very high
estimate of the ability of Mr. Marsh, and once,
when an appointment of Vice Chancellor was in
contemplation, I heard him say that if he had the
selection Mr. Marsh would be his choice.

In his non-professional life also, Mr. Marsh
was admirable. A good citizen, a tender hus-
band, benevoici'.t and public-spirited, he worthily
filled a place in a community where much is ex-
acted from those who would win honor and
affection. He was a man of varied culture and
experience, not confined to the somewhat nar-
row lines of his profession. Despite his busy life,
he found time for his annual vacation abroad,
and enjoyed it to the utmost.

Altogether he was a man who filled out the
measure of life in its fullness, and his early
taking-off is much to be deplored.

The following is a tribute from Mr.
Richard V. Lindabury :

I admired Mr. Marsh very much, not only on
account of his high character, but for his legal
ability, which I considered of the first order.
Indeed, he was second to none as an advocate in
this State. If Mr. Marsh had gone out into the
larger fields of legal practice, he would have
taken rank in the public estimation with the best
lawyers in the country.

The following is an extract from the
personal letter of Hon. Henry C. Pitney:

I esteemed him as one of my most cherished
friends. Of late years I have not been in the
way of seeing him often, but I have a delightful
recollection of a short visit with him just before
he took his annual trip abroad in 1909, as well
as our several social meetings in London. He
has left the memory of a well-spent, honorable
life.

The foreffoinpr sketch was compiled from the
book entitled "Life ,t Cralp; A. Marsh." written
by A. V. D. Honeym^n, editor of the New Jersey
Law Journal.

JOHNSON, Judge John Lawrence,

Lawyer, Jurist. Progressive Citizen.

It cannot be denied that members of
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the community, and this is but the natural
result of causes which are manifest and
which require no explanation. The abil-
ity and training which qualify one to
practice law, also qualify him in many
respects for duties which lie outside the
strict path of his profession, and which
touch the general interests of society.
The keen discernment and the habits of
logical reasoning and of arriving at accu-
rate deductions so necessary to the suc-
cessful lawyer enable him to view cor-
rectly important public questions and to
manage intricate business affairs success-
fully. Holding marked prestige among
the members of the bar of the State of
New Jersey, the late Judge John Law-
rence Johnson, of Verona, Essex county,
was for many years numbered among its
leading practitioners, and his connection
with its litigated interests was of a most
important and extensive character. Not
only did he attain to an eminent position
in connection with his chosen calling, but
his marked intellectuality and fitness for
leadership was beneficially felt in other
directions, especially in the field of edu-
cation. He was a man remarkable in the
breadth of his wisdom, in his indomitable
perseverance and his strong individuality,
and he possessed a weight of character, a
native sagacity, a farseeing judgment and
a fidelity of purpose that commanded the
respect of all.

Judge John Lawrence Johnson, of
Scotch-Irish descent, and son of William
Pitt and Abigail Adaline (Bell) Johnson,
was born at Heuvelton, St. Lawrence
county, New York, May 16, 1847, and died
March 25, 1915, at his home in Verona,
Essex county, New Jersey. From his earli-
est years he was of an earnest and studi-
ous disposition, and made the best use of
the limited educational advantages offered
by the schools of his native town, and the
study of mathematics always had an espe-
cial attraction for him. Having reached

a stage where the schools of Heuvelton
no longer benefited him, he became a
student of the New York Gouverneur
Seminary, and then entered the State
Normal Academy at Albany, from which
he was graduated January 31, 1871. In
the same year he went to Verona, New
Jersey, with which town his subsequent
life was identified. For a time he was
engaged in teaching school, then was ap-
pointed tutor of mathematics in the
famous Stevens School of Technology in
Hoboken, New Jersey, and in 1873 was
offered and accepted the tutorship of
mathematics in the high school at New-
ark, and during his incumbency of this
office he introduced many improvements
in the system of instruction which have
been approved by competent judges and
have been adopted by other institutions
of a similar kind. Many of his pupils are
at the present day filling positions of re-
sponsibility and honor, and it is one of
their pleasurable memories that they were
at one time under the tuition of Judge
Johnson.

An ardent spirit of laudable ambition
would not, however, permit Mr. Johnson
to rest content in this limited field for
his activities. For a long time he had felt
that in the legal profession he would be
able to accomplish more for the general
good than in any other line of activity,
and he had read law with avidity for some
time. With the idea that in the west, a
rapidly growing country, an ambitious
young man could advance with propor-
tionate rapidity, he went to Iowa in 1876,
and in the same year was admitted to the
bar. He did not, however, find condi-
tions for advancement there as he had
been led to expect, and accordingly re-
turned to Newark at the end of six
months and resumed his duties as Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in the High School,
retaining this position until 1883, when
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duties and responsibilities of public office.
In that year he had been appointed by
Governor George C. Ludlow as one of
the lay judges of the Essex County Court
of Common Pleas for a term of five years,
and, while faithfully discharging the
duties of his public office, entered his
name as a law student in the office of the
late Aram G. Sayre, and was admitted
to the bar of the New Jersey Supreme
Court, February 7, 1886. His term of
office as lay judge expired in 1888, and
he at once opened an office for private
practice in Newark, where his prestige
as a judge resulted in his obtaining a large
and lucrative practice in a comparatively
short period of time, and this increased
consistently in the course of years. Some
years later, when the increased demands
of his growing clientele made it impossi-
ble for Judge Johnson to personally take
charge of all the cases entrusted to him,
he admitted Scott Germain to a partner-
ship, and the firm practiced under the
style of Johnson & Germain.

When Judge Johnson took up his resi-
dence in Verona, it was but a small ham-
let, and he took a prominent part in the
development which resulted in its first
growing into a village, and then becom-
ing incorporated with borough privileges.
He was a member of St. John's Lodge.
No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Newark, having served this lodge as past
master; and was a member of Damascus
Commandery, Knights Templar. Every
movement, whether moral, educational or
religious, had his earnest and undivided
support.

Judge Johnson married (first) in 1872,
Sarah Alice, who died in 1879, a daugh-
ter of Stephen Personette, of French
Huguenot descent, and by this marriage
there were two children. He married
(second) in November, 1880, Alice L.
Thornton, and this union was blessed
with one child, Maria J.

Nowhere are the evidences of Judge
Johnson's public-spiritedness and his
ability to accomplish public benefits more
easily recognized than in the town which .
he chose for his home. The very trolley I
by which one reaches Verona is a monu- |
ment to his energy and ability. The Erie !
train, as it winds its way along the un- 1
dulating western hill, also pays tribute to !
the man who worked hard and long for
its coming. No one put a higher value
upon town improvements than did this
man, who also loved the birds, and yearly
provided for their food in his plantings.
No one so utterly disregarded his own I
fatigue in the battle to win. Neither time
nor money nor strength counted — to se-
cure was all. Judge Johnson planned and
accomplished the first brick school house.
He was the inspiration and founder of
the First Presbyterian Church in Verona,
and its principal financial support during
the struggle of its first few years. He
secured the money for the first Public
Library in Verona, which was placed in
the new brick school house. Later he
gave generously in ability and support to
the Library, which has since become the
Free Public Library of Verona, housed
in the public school, which has twice
been enlarged since Judge Johnson
planted the trees in front of the first brick
school house. For years he was the presi-
dent of the Board of Education and
always maintained an interest in school
affairs. The school children were his
friends, and he was theirs — a loyal cham-
pion always. The Verona Building and
Loan Association was started and organ-
ized by him, and he was its counsel for
many years.

RICHARDS, Uriah French, Ph. G.,

Exemplary Citizen and Business Man.

Tracing his ancestry to England and
Wales, and to the early colonial settlement
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coming of William Penn, Mr. Richards
inherited the best blood of that early
period, and to the sturdy virtues of his
Quaker ancestors added those traits of
character that ennobled his life and made
him a man beyond reproach. He had
mingled in his veins the blood of the
strong French, Richards, Jones and Heu-
lings families of Burlington and Glouces-
ter counties, families that in church, state
and business have been eminent for two
and one-half centuries of American resi-
dence.

His father, Jeremiah J. Richards, son of
John and Priscilla (Jones) Richards, was
born near Swedesboro, New Jersey, n
mo. 7, 1809, died at his home, "Eagle-
point Farm," near Red Bank, Gloucester
county, New Jersey, and was buried in
the Friends' burying ground, Woodbury,
New Jersey. He married, November 10,
1836, Sarah Heulings French, born 4 mo.
19, 1807, died at her residence on North
Third street, Camden, 12 mo. 31, 1882,
daughter of Uriah and Mary (Ivins)
French, and a descendant of Thomas
French, of England, a persecuted member
of the Society of Friends. Children :
Isaac French ; Mary F., married John S.
W. Johnson, of Camden, New Jersey ;
George Washington ; Albert ; John ;
Uriah French, of further mention. Of
these children, Mrs. Mary French John-
son is the only survivor. The French
ancestry of Uriah French Richards fol-
lows.

Thomas French, the founder, was born
in October, 1639, and was baptized No-
vember 3, following, at the Church of
Saints Peter and Paul, Nether Heyford,
.Northamptonshire, England. He early
became a member of the then new re-
ligious sect, the Society of Friends, being
actively identified therewith, and at differ-
ent times paid in suffering the penalty of
his faith, serving several terms in prison

for refusal to pay tithes. He came to
America in the ship "Kent," sailing from
London about August 1, 1680, and settled
upon a tract of six hundred acres of good
land lying along the banks of Rancocas
creek, about four miles from, Burlington,
New Jersey. He prospered, increased his
holdings to two thousand acres, and for
twenty years was a leading citizen of the
county, was twice married and reared a
large family of children, including four
sons, all of whom were trained in ways
of sobriety, industry, and religion, they in
turn founding families in whom the same
strong traits of character were manifest.
His first wife, Jane Atkins, he married in
England ; his second wife, Elizabeth
Stanton, was a member of Philadelphia
Meeting (Monthly), Society of Friends.

Charles French, third son of the
founder and his first wife, was born in
England, March 20, 1671. He adminis-
tered his father's estate, and in this con-
nection visited England in 1699 and sev-
eral times thereafter. He was a pros-
perous farmer, a man of prominence, and
had interests in both Burlington and
Gloucester counties. He was twice mar-
ried, and left male issue.

Charles (2) French, son of Charles and
his first wife, Elinor, was born August 12,
1714, died January 15, 1785. He settled
in Moorestown, New Jersey, about 1740,
where he became a landowner and over-
seer of Chester Meeting, Moorestown,
and active in the affairs of the Society
of Friends. In 1771 he purchased one
thousand acres of "land and swamp,"
with saw-mill, farm houses, etc., located
about three miles from Mullica Hill, New
Jersey. His will shows that at the time
of his death he was a man of large pos-
sessions, and the records cite his intelli-
gent attention to public affairs. He mar-
ried Ann, daughter of Jacob and Ann
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Gregory Clement, of London, England,
member of the Cromwell Parliament, and
one of the judges who tried and convicted
Charles I. in 1648. Maternally she was a
granddaughter of Samuel Harrison, mar-
iner, of Gloucester county, New Jersey,
who tradition says was a son or grandson
of General Thomas Harrison, one of the
signers of the death warrant of Charles I.
and who was executed after the Restora-
tion.

Samuel French, second son of Charles
(2) and Ann (Clement) French, was born
in Waterford township, Gloucester
county, New Jersey, September 17, 1748,
died July 8, 1814. He became a large
landowner, prosperous farmer, and public
man, serving in the New Jersey Legis-
lature from Gloucester county in 1795-96-
97, 1800-01-02. He was devoted in his
allegiance to the Society of Friends, and
throughout a manhood of half a century
manifested the qualities of his conscien-
tious, vigorous, industrious, and honor-
able ancestry. He married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Jacob (2) and Agnes (Buckman)
Heulings, of Evesham township, Burling-
ton county, New Jersey. She was a great-
granddaughter of William Buckman, who
came to Pennsylvania in 1682 with Wil-
liam Penn in the "Welcome," also a great-
granddaughter of William Heulings, a
justice of the peace for Burlington county
in 1703.

Uriah French, eldest son of Samuel and
Sarah (Heulings) French, was born July
13, 1770, died September 27, 1825, "fifty
minutes past three o'clock in the after-
noon." He was his father's assistant for
several years on the farm and saw-mill
property located near Mullica Hill, New
Jersey, and although inheriting this prop-
erty in 1814, he sold it within the same
year. About 1817 he moved to Swedes-
boro, New Jersey, where he engaged in
mercantile business and resided until
shortly before his death in 1825. His home

and store was a large brick building with
commodious basement built about 1784,
a wharf a few feet from the basement
door extending into Raccoon creek afford-
ing facilities for receiving and shipping
goods. He married Mary, daughter of
Isaac (3) and Hannah (Tilton) Ivins, of
Salem county, New Jersey. Her great-
grandfather, Isaac Ivins, for half a cen-
tury kept a general store and trading post
at Georgetown, which was the resort of
Indian and white trappers. Mary Ivins
French survived her husband, and spent
her widowed years at Mullica Hill. Sarah
Heulings, daughter of Uriah and Mary
(Ivins) French, married Jeremiah J. Rich-
ards, of previous mention.

Uriah French Richards, youngest child
of Jeremiah J. and Sarah Heulings
(French) Richards, was born at Mickle-
ton, New Jersey, March 27, 1847, died in
Montreal, Canada, March 4, 1915. He
was educated in the public schools of
Philadelphia, and naturally had a predilec-
tion for the drug business, with which the
name French is so intimately and promi-
nently connected. He entered the Phil-
adelphia College of Pharmacy and was
graduated from that institution with
honors, Ph. G., class of 1871. Immedi-
ately after graduation he was given a
position in the wholesale drug business of
which his maternal uncle, Clayton
French, was the head, and to his college
training added the knowledge of the prac-
tical side of the drug business. He was
very industrious and observant, and after
gaining the necessary experience formed
a partnership with Dr. Armstrong and
opened a drug store in Camden, New Jer-
sey, there conducting a very successful
business for several years under the firm
name of Richards & Armstrong. This
firm finally dissolved, Mr. Richards then
opening a store at No. 309 Market street,
where for many years he conducted a
prosperous business. He was one of the

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best known men in the drug trade in
Camden, his store one of the finest in the
city. He built up an enviable reputation
for the purity and reliability of his prepa-
rations, and gained the public confidence
as an honorable, upright business man
and citizen. Not long prior to his death
he retired from the retail drug trade,
closed out his interests in Camden, and
accepted a position as traveling salesman
for a wholesale drug firm of Baltimore.
While in Montreal in the interests of his
firm he was suddenly stricken by death.
During his Camden residence he took a
deep interest in all that affected the city,
and bore his full share of responsibility.
He served in the National Guard as a
member of the Sixth Regiment, and was
keenly alive to his duties as a citizen, but
neither sought nor accepted public office.
He was an active member of the Presby-
terian church, and deeply interested in
the Sunday school, where he was the in-
strument of much good.

His body was brought to Camden by
his only living sister, Mary French John-
son, and lovingly laid at rest in Evergreen
Cemetery.

MURRAY, George Crawford,

Ideal Citizen, Legislator.

The late George Crawford Murray, of
Middletown, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, was one of those men whose lives
and characters are of inestimable value as
exemplars of what worthy lives should be.
His ambition was ever along the worth-
iest lines and his whole life was devoted
to the highest and best ideals. His nature
was of singular sweetness, openness and
sincerity. He had a profound knowledge
of human nature, and was ever thoughtful
for the welfare of his fellow beings. His
family, which was of Scotch descent, was
resident in New Jersey from about the
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Joseph Murray, great-grandfather of
George Crawford Murray, came to New
Jersey from Londonderry, Ireland, with
his mother, Elizabeth. His house, which
is still standing, was built with a very
solid foundation, also the barn, construct-
ed about the same time. He was enrolled
as a private in the First Regiment Mon-
mouth Militia, recorded in Trenton as
follows: "State of New Jersey, Office of
Adjutant-General, Trenton, March 26th,
1895. It is certified that the records of
this office show that Joseph Murray
served as a Private in the First Regiment,
Monmouth County, New Jersey, Militia
in the Revolutionary War, and that he
was killed by Tories at Middletown, Mon-
mouth County, New Jersey, June 8, 1780.
(Seal). William S. Stryker, Adjutant-
General." He was a plain, strong, fear-
less, straight-forward patriot, and was re-
spected and trusted by his officers and
comrades. He was buried in a little plot
on his own farm, but his remains were
moved October 16, 1855, by his grandson,
William W. Murray, and on his head-
stone is the inscription: "Died in the
service of his country." Mr. Murray mar-
ried, about 1767, Rebecca Morris. Chil-
dren : William, of further mention ;
James, at one time in the business of
masons' supplies in New York City, later
of Rossville, Staten Island, where his de-
scendants still live, married Alice ;

Joseph, owner of much land in New Jer-
sey, resided and was in business in New
York City in 1833 ; two daughters, the

younger of whom married Havens,

and moved to Southern New Jersey.

William Murray, eldest son of Joseph
and Rebecca (Morris) Murray, was born
August 16, 1771, and died January 25,
1834. He was but nine years old when
his father died, and at once was obliged
to assist in the support of his mother and
the younger children. He was appren-
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not follow this calling in later life. He
had a team in 1792, and while working
with this at plowing, he devoted every
moment of his spare time to the study of
bookkeeping, mathematics and surveying.
He purchased his farm in Middletown
village, April 11, 1815, paying $9,000, and
later in the same year opened the store,
which was conducted under the firm name
of William Murray & Son. He was suc-
cessful in both enterprises, and carried
on both operations along the most pro-
gressive lines. The State Bank at Middle-
town Point was organized in 1830, and on
January 2, 1832, Mr. Murray was elected
as a director of this institution, and at
the time of his death was one of the larg-
est shareholders. He was postmaster of
Middletown, and for many years trustee
of the Middletown Baptist Church. Au-
gust 20, 1832, Mr. Murray sold to the
Baptist church, land back of it, to be used
for a cemetery, and reserved a plot for
himself. Mr. Murray married, December
2, 1792, Anna Schenck, born October 9,
1770, died August 17, 1822. Children:
William W., of further mention ; Eliza,
married James Layton, of Chapel Hill
and Hedden's Corners, a descendant of
William Laiton or Layton, one of the
Middletown patentees; James W., mar-
ried Maria Lufburrow, and received the
old Murray place on Poricy Brook ;
Sisera Ann, married Joseph Frost ; Jo-
seph Washington, died in his third year.
William W. Murray, son of William
and Anna (Schenck) Murray, was born
November 30, 1794, and died June 1, 1865.
His education was the ordinary one of a
country school, but he early displayed
especial ability as a penman, bookkeeper
and accountant. He became associated
in business with his father in 1815, the
firm name being William Murray & Son,
and upon the death of the latter, contin-
ued the farming and mercantile interests
alone. When the towns of Keyport and

Red Bank were developed, all business
was taken from Middletown, and the farm
was rented to successive tenants, who
allowed it to fall into bad condition. For
many years Mr. Murray was postmaster
of Middletown, and a trustee of the Bap-
tist church, holding this office until his
death. He and his wife greatly appre-
ciated the value of a good education, and
gave their children the best advantages
that lay in their power. Mr. Murray mar-
ried, November 20, 1817, Mary Crawford,
born January 12, 1800, a daughter of
George and Eleanor Crawford ; great-
great-granddaughter of the first John
Crawford, of Middletown ; and a descend-
ant of Roelif Martinse Schenck, of Long
Island; also of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes,
of Rhode Island ; and of Sheriff Daniel
Hendrickson. Children: Lavinia, mar-
ried James M. Hoagland, of the Dutch
family of that name in Somerset county,
New Jersey ; Eleanor Crawford, married
Henry G. Scudder, of Huntington, Long
Island, a descendant of Thomas Scudder,
the first emigrant of that name in Salem
in 1635 ; George Crawford, whose name
heads this sketch.

George Crawford Murray, only son and
youngest child of William W. and Mary
(Crawford) Murray, was born in Middle-
town, Monmouth county, New Jersey,
January 3, 1827, and died there, November
24, 1884. He was but three years of age
when his education was commenced in
the school conducted by Mr. Austin, in a
small building located in Dr. Edward
Taylor's garden, opposite the east side of
the Episcopal church, in Middletown. He
also studied under Mr. Austin, in the old
Franklin Academy. At the age of thir-
teen years he became a student at the
Washington Institute, in New York City,
and was there prepared for entrance to
Yale College, now Yale University, under
the preceptorship of Timothy Dwight
Porter. He felt that his especial weak-

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ness was mathematics, and with the en-
ergy and ambition so characteristic of
him from his earliest years, determined to
pursue this study by himself. So success-
ful was he in his efforts in this direction
that, one year later (1841), he passed his
entrance examination to Yale in this
branch successfully. September 30, 1843,
he received "Professor Playf air's Works"
"from the President and Fellows of Yale
to George C. Murray, for excelling in the
Solution of Mathematical Problems." In
1845 he was graduated as the youngest
member of his class. By means of living
plainly and economically upon the com-
petent allowance he received from his
father during his college years, he was
enabled to put aside a handsome sum of
money which he devoted to the purchase
of standard works for a well chosen
library. Following is an example of the
esteem in which he was held by his class-
mates. One of them wrote: "My Dear
Murray — An intimate acquaintance with
you during the past year has served only
to increase the feelings of high esteem
which I have always entertained for you,
and I regret exceedingly that I am so soon
to part with one whose honesty of pur-
pose, integrity of principle, united with
real solid worth has won my admiration."
His classmates expressed their estimate
of his character in a series of farewell
autographs, in which the words most fre-
quently occurring were "integrity of
character."

Science and engineering would have
been the branches chosen by Mr. Murray
had he followed his own inclinations, and
he was eminently fitted to achieve success
in these fields. But the wishes of his pa-
rents were ever a paramount consider-
ation with him, and it was their desire
that he fit himself for either a legal or
medical profession. Having decided
upon law, he studied for almost a year

with Peter D. Vroom, of Trenton, New
Jersey, and then with the Hon. George
Wood, of New York City, and was ad-
mitted to practice in the latter State,
January 8, 1849. He then returned to
Yale College, and there took a post-gradu-
ate course in analytical chemistry, in the
new scientific department of the college.
Returning to his home in August, 1850,
he again yielded to the solicitations of his
parents, who desired him to abandon pro-
fessional work of any kind, and devote
himself to agricultural pursuits. Repug-
nant as the idea was to his finely trained
and developed mind, his filial devotion
gained the day and he became a farmer.
The energy and earnestness which had
characterized his years of study did not
fail him in this new field of industry, and
he pursued all the distasteful details of
farm life with thoroughness and a careful
attention to detail, and applied to them
original ideas, developed in his scientifi-
cally trained mind. Many of these ideas
were adopted by others, and some of them
changed slightly to meet altered condi-
tions, are in use at the present time.
While superintending some work in a
marl pit, at Groom's Hill, on his farm,
Mr. Murray, in February, 1858, had one
of his feet crushed by the caving in of a
mass of frozen earth, and, as Dr. Willard
Parker, the eminent surgeon of New
York who was called in consultation,
said: "Young man, your clean, temper-
ate life will save you and prevent the loss
of that foot." The accident, however,
caused a permanent lameness which ne-
cessitated the use of crutches for some
time, and he was never able to walk with-
out the aid of a strong cane. The larger
part of his work on the farm was ac-
complished, thereafter, on horseback.
Throughout his life he was an intense suf-
ferer as a result of this accident, but bore
his sufferings with admirable patience,

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and was always cheerful and uncomplain-
ing.

Mr. Murray was a keen observer of cur-
rent events, and for some years prior to
the outbreak of the Civil War he compiled
several volumes of notes of speeches made
by himself and others, having a bearing
on the subject, and these are of great
local interest to Monmouth county. He
was frequently the orator of the day on
public occasions, one of these, on which
he delivered a particularly stirring and
patriotic address, being May 26, 1S61,
when the people of Middletown erected a
huge flagpole and raised a handsome
flag. At the celebration. July 4, 1861,
Mr. Murray made an eloquent and im-
passioned speech in favor of an un-
divided Union. On numerous other occa-
sions he was equally convincing and pa-
triotic. While a strong supporter of
Democratic principles, Mr. Murray never
allowed himself to be bound by party ties,
but had the courage of his convictions,
and did not hesitate to voice them, even
at the expense of personal disadvantage.
He was elected to the Legislature of New
Jersey in the fall of 1861 and took an ac-
tive part in the sessions. He served as
a member of the committee on education,
and the committee on the State Library.
During this session the railroad com-
panies were active in their efforts to
obtain legislation which should be to their
advantage, and in pursuance of this idea
many fine dinners were given, to which
Mr. Murray was also invited. After re-
peated and constant refusals on his part
he was notified that if he did not come
of his own accord, he would be compelled
to attend by means of force. His reply
was "that he would not accept the invita-
tion ; that he would be in his room at the
appointed hour, but he wished to inform
them that the first man who attempted to
lay his hands upon him would do so at
his own peril." He remained unmolested

until the close of the term of office. While
he was debarred from active service in the
army or navy by reason of his lameness,
Mr. Murray was nevertheless an active
worker in the cause of the Union. By
means of public addresses, by public de-
bate, in which he never lost his self con-
trol, his influence was wide spread and a
beneficial one. When the severity of the
Draft Act of 1863 fell upon the poor men
of his community, mostly upon the poor
fishermen and the naturalized Irishmen,
they appealed to him, their friend, for aid,
knowing well that if there was help for
them it would be found. In February,
1864, he obtained the endorsement of sev-
eral prominent men of the town, and was
thus enabled to draw a large sum of
money from the Middletown Bank to be
used for the purchase of substitutes for
the poor men of the town who had been
drafted, and whose families would be
threatened with starvation were the only
provider for the family taken from them.
Mr. Murray strapped this "bounty
money" securely about his body and set
out for Washington, February 27, 1864.
During this trip of nearly two weeks he
was almost afraid to snatch a few mo-
ments for much needed rest, owing to
the desperate character of men who fol-
lowed him constantly, in the hope of se-
curing this money. In spite of all his
efforts, Mr. Murray was not able to secure
the exemption of all the men for whom he
pleaded, and upon his return to his home
he made immense sacrifices in his en-
deavor to support the families who were
left destitute. A large share of his crops
was bestowed in charity of this nature,
and upon him was bestowed the well
earned and well deserved title of the
"Poor man's friend." As a judge of elec-
tion after the war, Mr. Murray accepted
those voters who were eligible according
to the laws then in force. This was
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and he was advised to leave his home, as
his enemies would have him indicted for
accepting illegal votes. He answered : "I
will be right here on my place. If there
is a grand jury in Monmouth county that
will indict me for doing my duty, I am
willing to stand my trial." And he re-
mained at home until notified that the
grand jury had refused to listen to the
complaint against him.

During his absence in Washington he
had been elected assessor for the town-
ship of Middletown, an office he filled with
ability for a number of years. When land
became valuable along the Shrewsbury
river for summer residences, Mr. Murray
with his usual interest in behalf of the
poorer classes, found that the small
owners were bearing the larger share of
the taxation, and he determined to rec-
tify this matter. This resulted, as might
have been foreseen, in the making of
many enemies among the richer owners,
but this did not deter Mr. Murray from
carrying out his intention, which he did
successfully.

Upon the death of his father in 1865,
Mr. Murray succeeded him as trustee of
the Middletown Baptist Church, being the
third generation in a direct line to hold
this office, and in 1872, he was elected
clerk of the board of trustees. In order
to carry out the provisions of the will of
his father, Mr. Murray was obliged to
mortgage the farm, and his fortune was
further decreased by the development of
farming interests in the south and west.
He abandoned conservative farming as
being unproductive of pecuniary results,
and commenced raising products easy of
culture and requiring the least amount
of labor. In many instances he sup-
planted the labor of human hands by ma-
chinery of his own invention, and during
the period of ten years following the Civil
War he made many experiments along

the lines of increasing the commercial
value of the products of his farm. A
number of the experiments which he then
made have since that time been taken into
practical use, and have been productive
of excellent results. He was neither ex-
travagant nor a speculator, but in the
scope of his work he was too far in
advance of the times. He foresaw the
fact that New Jersey would become a
residential and commercial State rather
than an agricultural one, but the time was
not ripe for the successful carrying out of
his ideas. When Monmouth county suf-
fered heavy losses by the embezzlement
of some tax collectors, Mr. Murray was
active in the prosecution of George W.
Patterson and Alvan B. Hallenbeck, tax
collectors of Freehold and Middletown
townships. In this matter he was acting
deliberately against his private interests,
as he was one of the bondsmen of Mr.
Hallenbeck, but it was one of his fixed
principles to place the public welfare
above his private affairs, no matter at
what cost to himself. Few believed that
he was honest in his conduct of this mat-
ter, but he was upheld by the courage of
his convictions. Having sustained other
losses about the same time, Mr. Murray
was unable to pay off the mortgage on his
farm, and this was foreclosed in 1880.
Bereft of all but his household goods, he
again bravely took up the struggle for an
existence, handicapped as he was oy
lameness and approaching old age. This
struggle, brave as it was, lasted but a few
years, as he died on Thanksgiving Day,
1884.

Mr. Murray married. February 27,
1855, Mary Catherine Cooper, born
March 20, 1833, a daughter of James and
Rebecca (Patterson) Cooper; grand-
daughter of George and Abigail (Oakley)
Cooper, of Westchester county, New
York ; great-granddaughter of James and

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Elizabeth (Douglas) Cooper, the latter a
sister of Alexander Douglas, who earned
fame at the battle of Trenton ; and a de-
scendant of "Benjamin Cooper, yeoman,
late of ye Fresh Kills, Staten Island, now
(1712) of Middletown, Monmouth coun-
ty. New Jersey." Rebecca (Patterson)
Cooper was the daughter of Judge Jehu
and Hannah (Gordon) Patterson, the lat-
ter a great-granddaughter of Charles Gor-
don, one of the founders of old Tennent
Church. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Mur-
ray: 1. Mary Crawford, became the wife
of Dr. Ovid Allen Hyde, of Brooklyn,
New York; children: Chester Ovid, and
George Crawford, deceased. 2. Ella
Cooper, became the wife of William T.
Van Brunt, of Middletown, New Jersey ;
children : George Crawford, deceased ;
and Catherine M. 3. George Crawford, a
practical electrician; married (first) Ger-
trude Whitman, of Brooklyn, New York ;
child, Gertrude Dorothy; married (sec-
ond) Mary Daud, of Brooklyn, New
York ; children : Maria Daud and Anita.

PERRY, Capt. Samuel Edmund,

Lawyer, Legislator, National Guard Officer.

Although widely known by his military
title, it was as a lawyer and public official
that Captain Perry best served his native
State. One of the old school of lawyers,
he won the confidence of the judges of the
higher and inferior courts, and many im-
portant causes were committed to his cap-
able professional care. He was a member
of the Connecticut, New York, and New
Jersey bars, and practiced in all three
States ; but his greatest fame as a lawyer
was won as a member of the Atlantic
county bar in his native State, practicing
in Atlantic City while living in a beautiful
home at Somers Point. But he was claim-
ed by and belonged to the entire county,
where his labors as professional man and
citizen resulted in great benefit to all.

As a lawyer he won fame in the conduct
of a number of cases famous in New Jer-
sey Law Reports. Among the more cele-
brated cases in which he was counsel the
following attracted unusual public atten-
tion : Burke vs. Tighe, a murder case ;
the Black Hussars case, growing out
of the unwarranted cowardly attack upon
Sheriff Gaunt, of Gloucester county; the
case of Robert Elder, indicted for the
murder of his father, near Hammonton,
Captain Perry being senior counsel in as-
sociation with former Judge Endicott ; the
defense of Eva Hamilton, in August, 18S9,
the last named case winning Captain
Perry great fame, and placing him in the
front rank of criminal lawyers. As a pub-
lic official he made an enviable record,
performing . the duties of the offices of
trust that were bestowed upon him with
scrupulous fidelity. He was of most
genial nature, with kindly word and pleas-
ant smile for all. He gained worldly com-
petence, and might have given himself
long years of ease had he so desired, but
he was so deeply interested in community
affairs and so loath to deny his friends the
legal aid they desired, that he continued
"in the harness" until life's sands were
nearly run. When, however, his last
brief was filed, and he appeared before
the Great Judge, it was with the con-
fidence that his case was well prepared,
that there was no flaw in the record, and
that the verdict, "Well done, good and
faithful servant," would be rendered.

Captain Perry inherited his strong
character and unusual talents from an
honored father and mother. His father,
Edmund Perry, represented Hunterdon
county in the New Jersey State Senate,
and in 1861 was president of that body,
and at one time served as acting governor
entertaining President Lincoln. He was
classed with the foremost men of his day,
and ranked favorably with such promi-
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son, United States Senator William
Wright, Secretary Frederick Frelinghuy-
sen, John P. Stockton, and Frederick C.
Potts. Captain Perry's mother, Elizabeth
D. (White) Perry, was an accomplished
linguist and a noted amateur musician,
also widely known through her contribu-
tions to magazines and periodicals. Her
article against flogging in the United
States navy created a sensation, and
Commodore Stockton is credited with the
statement that "that article did more to
cause the abolishment of such punishment
than any other agency." She wrote under
her maiden name, Elizabeth D. White,
and in the old "Columbia Magazine" and
in other old time periodicals her articles
may be found.

Samuel Edmund Perry, son of Edmund
and Elizabeth D. (White) Perry, was
born at New Hampton, Hunterdon county,
New Jersey, May 7, 1849, died at Somers
Point. Atlantic county, New Jersey, De-
cember 20, 1914. He was a student at
Riverview Military Academy at Pough-
keepsie, New York, then at Eagleswood,
New Jersey, later pursuing a course at the
Pennsylvania Military College, Chester,
Pennsylvania. He chose the profession
of law, studied under Judge Randolph, of
the New Jersey Supreme Court, and com-
pleted a course at Columbia Law School,
New York City. After graduation he was
admitted to the Connecticut bar, and be-
gan practice in the city of Hartford. He
was subsequently engaged in practice in
New York City in association with Judge
Stephen D. Stevens, and later had offices
with General Roger A. Pryor in New
York. In 1877 he was admitted to the
New Jersey bar as an attorney, and in
1881 as a counsellor. He first practiced
in New Jersey at Flemington, his native
town, then spent a short time in practice
at Lambertville, afterward moving to At-
lantic City, where he won fame in his pro-
fession and continued in practice until

life's course was nearly completed. He
attained a prominence in Atlantic county
unsurpassed by any and equalled by few.
In Hunterdon county he had been solici-
tor for the Board of Freeholders, and at
Lambertville was city solicitor. In At-
lantic county he was Prosecutor of the
Pleas for five years, appointed by Gov-
ernor Werts in 1893. He was a special
Master in Chancery, and sat as Advisory
Master in the divorce case, Irwin vs.
Irwin, of Chelsea, rendering a decision in
favor of Airs. Irwin. His private practice
was very large, conducted from offices in
the Currie building, Atlantic and South
Carolina avenues, Atlantic City. He was
counsel for the Atlantic City Hotel Men's
Association, and was in close touch with
the public at many points.

Captain Perry was an enthusiastic
apostle of "Deeper Waterways," was
chosen as delegate to many "Waterways"
conventions, was delegate from New Jer-
sey to the National Conference on Water-
ways held in Washington, and at the
Deeper Waterways Association Conven-
tion held in Providence, Rhode Island,
was elected vice-president of the associ-
ation, the only officer elected from New
Jersey.

Captain Perry, educated in military
schools, ever cherished a fondness for the
military branch of national defense. He
was an active member of the long extinct
Sea Coast Artillery Company, succeeded
by Company F, of which he was captain
until that, too, passed away.

In politics Captain Perry was an ardent
Democrat, and as such was chosen jour-
nal clerk of the New Jersey House of
Assembly in 1878, and in 1889 was elected
a member of the Atlantic City Board of
Education. He was appointed Prosecutor
by Democratic Governor Werts in 1893,
and in 1896 was a delegate to the Na-
tional Democratic Convention that nomi-
nated William Jennings Bryan for presi-

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dent, although the New Jersey delegation
as a unit voted in opposition to that nomi-
nation under their instructions to support
a "sound money" candidate.

He belonged to many fraternal associa-
tions and other organizations, including
the legal associations, local, State, and
national. He was the first exalted ruler
of Atlantic City Lodge No. 276, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks ; was
active in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men,
and the Improved Order of Heptasophs.
At the laying of the cornerstone of Odd
Fellows' Hall in Atlantic City. June 13.
1892, he was the orator of the day. He
was greatly beloved in all the orders with
which he was affiliated. He was long con-
nected with the Volunteer Firemen's As-
sociation and was major and judge advo-
cate of the Third Regiment New Jersey
National Guard.

Captain Perry married (first) Adela
Chambers, of New York City. He mar-
ried (second) in 1879, Isabella Loomis, of
Columbia county, New York, daughter of
Eli and Mary Cozzens (Webster) Loomis,
the latter a relative of Daniel Webster,
and schoolmate of Charlotte Cushman.
Mrs. Perry is a great-granddaughter of
Major Cozzens, a Revolutionary officer,
and is a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, eligible to this soci-
ety on both sides of her family. She con-
tinues her residence at the beautiful home
at Somers Point.

SHEPARD, Frederick M.,

Financier, Humanitarian, Philanthropist.

The surname derived from the oldest
occupation of men has been worthily
borne by eminent men in many lands in
every generation, but by none more
worthily than by Frederick M. Shepard,
a "Captain of Industry," banker, philan-

thropist and humanitarian, late of East
Orange, New Jersey. Though not a
native born son of New Jersey, he entered
heartily into the business life of his
adopted home, aided in the establishment
of new interests, financial and industrial,
also in philanthropy and religion left en-
during monuments to his great public
spirit. To his business sagacity the pure
abundant water supply of East Orange is
largely due, also the banking institution
of the city. To his philanthropy Orange
Memorial Hospital owes a debt of grati-
tude for the tuberculosis department,
erected in memory of a dear son. To his
religious fervor Munn Avenue (First)
Presbyterian Church can ascribe much of
its prosperity, while Elmwood Chapel
Sunday School is a monument to his de-
votion and interest, his connection with
that school forming one of the pleasant
and interesting chapters of his life in East
Orange.

Mr. Shepard was of the eighth Amer-
ican generation of the family founded in
Massachusetts by Edward Shepard, a sea
captain, about the year 1639. He was a
descendant of an English family that bore
arms : "Vert two shepherds' crooks in sal-
tire or, between three lambs passant, two
and one argent." Crest : "A mount vert
thereon in front of two shepherds' crooks
in saltire or, a lamb passant argent."

Frederick M. Shepard was born in Nor-
folk, Litchfield county, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 24, 1827, and died in East Orange,
a son of John Andrus and Margaret J.
(Mills) Shepard, of Norfolk, the former a
member of the Connecticut legislature
and postmaster. He attended public and
private schools, completing his studies in
the school conducted by the Rev. John F.
Norton in Norfolk. He began business
life as clerk in a Norfolk store, then spent
some years in a similar capacity in a dry
goods store in Hartford, Connecticut. In

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1848, on arriving at legal age, he went to
New York and there for five years was in
the employ of Augustine Averill & Com-
pany, commission merchants. In 1S53 he
began his wonderfully successful career
as a rubber manufacturer and merchant, a
career that terminated only when the
highest honor had been won, and his place
at the head of the world's greatest rub-
ber interests firmly established, and his
worth recognized. He was elected secre-
tary of the Union Rubber Company in
1853, later becoming its president. In
1864 he organized, in association with
Joseph A. Minott, the Rubber Clothing
Company, and in 1872, also in association
with Mr. Minott, organized the Goodyear
Rubber Company, and under Mr. Shep-
ard's control. He was also president of
the Lambertville Rubber Company ; direc-
tor of the National India Rubber Com-
pany of Rhode Island, of the United
States Rubber Company, and of the Mu-
tual Benefit Life Insurance Company.

Mr. Shepard resided in New York until
1868, and then purchased a residence on
Munn avenue, East Orange, which he oc-
cupied in summer only until 1873, then
sold his New York residence and there-
after made East Orange his permanent
home. The original house was greatly
enlarged and beautified within and with-
out, and with its surroundings formed
one of the most attractive homes in that
city of beautiful residences.

For the first few years after locating in
East Orange, Mr. Shepard took little in-
terest in the life of that city except in its
religious and philanthropic institutions.
The Orange Water Company, chartered
in 1867, had lain dormant, but in 1880 was
revived, Mr. Shepard being one of the
first and largest stockholders, and the
first president, continuing in that office
until his death. Under him a perfect sys-
tem of supply and distribution was estab-
lished, furnishing a pure and abundant

supply, he, with his associate, Mr. Ran-
dall, bearing the early financial burden.
While a pure and plentiful supply of water
was the paramount idea, the returns in a
financial sense have also proved satis-
factory to the stockholders. He contrib-
uted largely to the erection of the Com-
monwealth building, and organized the
East Orange Safe Deposit and Trust Com-
pany, whose vaults are in that building.
He was the first president of the com-
pany, serving many years, then resigned,
but accepted the office of vice-president.
He aided in organizing the East Orange
National Bank, was its president tor two
years, and then retired, having seen that
institution safe and surely on the road to
success. He aided by influence and large
contributions the Orange Memorial Hos-
pital, and in memory of his son, Joseph
Minott Shepard. erected the tuberculosis
department of that valuable philanthropy.
In memory of his childhood days, Mr.
Shepard also established a water system
in his native town of Norfolk in 1894, the
Norfolk Water Company furnishing that
town with an abundant supply of pure
water drawn from Mountain Lake.

A Presbyterian in religion, Mr. Shepard
on coming to East Orange became a mem-
ber of the Munn Avenue Presbyterian
Church, also known as the First Presby-
terian Church of East Orange. He served
on the board of trustees for several years,
and during his term the debt was extin-
guished that had been on the congrega-
tion since the erection of the church edi-
fice in 1863. When Elmwood Chapel, a
branch of the Munn Avenue Church, was
proposed, Mr. Shepard by personal effort
and generous contribution made its estab-
lishment possible. After the erection of
the chapel he took deep personal interest
in its welfare, especially in the Sunday
school, serving as its superintendent from
1880. He devoted much time to its up-
building, and saw its steady growth in

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number and usefulness with the keenest
pleasure. He was beloved by teachers
and scholars, his connection with Elm-
wood Chapel and its Sunday school form-
ing a most delightful feature of his life in
East Orange, and one he reviewed with
deep satisfaction. So lived a good man
"diligent in business, fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord." His life was one of
construction and upbuilding. His fortune
was fairly earned and rightly used. He
did not let "his right hand know what his
left hand was doing," and many of his
benevolences and deeds of kindness were
unknown save to those benefitted. But
his deeds of public-spirited generosity,
publicly performed as mentioned, were
many, and stand as monuments to the
memory of a "good man," and of one who
stood every test demanded of American
citizenship and of a manly character.

Air. Shepard married, in September,
1854, Annie Clarissa, daughter of Theron
Rockwell, of Colebrook, Connecticut, a
descendant of Deacon William Rockwell,
who came to Nantucket, Massachusetts,
May 30, 1630, and founded one of the im-
portant Pilgrim families. Joseph Rock-
well, of the fifth American generation,
was one of the proprietors of Colebrook,
Connecticut, and captain of the first
militia company in the town. His son,
Elijah Rockwell, was a lieutenant of the
Revolution, justice of the peace, and town
clerk of Colebrook for thirty-eight years.
Theron Rockwell, his son, was a leather
manufacturer of Colebrook and New
York, a man of wealth and influence ; he
married Clarissa Treat, a descendant of
Matthew Treat, of Connecticut, Annie
Clarissa being the youngest child of that
marriage.

Children of Frederick M. and Annie
Clarissa (Rockwell) Shepard: Annie
Rockwell; Frederick M., married Isabella
Condit ; Clara Margaret, married Alfred
Boote ; Joseph Minott, died in 1875 ; John
Andrus ; Edith Mills.

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MACWITHEY, Amasa A., M. D.,

Physician, Hghly Estimable Citizen.

The eminence of Dr. Amasa A. Mac-
withey, late of Pompton, Morris county,
New Jersey, was conceded by all. His
place in public confidence, esteem and
honor, was secure. It was won by a life
of unsullied integrity, of identification
with educational and philanthropic inter-
ests, and of devotion to the public welfare.
It is interesting to trace the factors in the
making of such a career. Although "blood
will tell," aristocracy of rank is unknown
among us, and it is the aristocracy of cul-
ture, character and ability that will always
have our respect.

Dr. Macwithey was born in Saratoga
county, New York, December 15, 1819,
and died at his home in Pompton, Morris
county, New Jersey, in January, 1908, at
the age of eighty-eight years. He was a
son of John and Mary (Jeremiah) Mac-
withey, also natives of Saratoga county,
the former a contractor and builder by
occupation, who was employed in the con-
struction of the Union College, in Sche-
nectady, New York. Dr. Macwithey was
reared in the latter place and acquired his
literary education in its public schools,
after which he followed the printer's trade
in New York City for some years. He
studied medicine under Dr. Isaac S. Smith,
of New York City, and attended lectures
at the New York University, from which
institution he was graduated in the class
of 1843, ms diploma being signed by Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen, then chancellor of
the university. Dr. Macwithey entered
upon his professional career in New York
City, where he remained until the year
1850, when he removed to Pompton, New
Jersey, where he made his home and de-
voted his energies to the restoration of the
sick. He was always a close student of
his profession and, by careful and con-
centrated reading, kept abreast of the im-
provements which characterize the science

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of medicine. He was very successful in
his work, and was the respected and hon-
ored family physician in many of the best
homes in his section of the county. He
belonged to the Morris County Medical
Society, and was examining surgeon for
the New York Mutual and the Manhattan
Life Insurance companies many years.

Dr. Macwithey was a valued member
of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to
Orange Lodge of Paterson, New Jersey.
He was also a member of the United
Friends, and in his political associations
was a Republican, warmly espousing the
principles of the Grand Old Party. He
was connected in religious belief with the
Reformed church, and served as elder of
that congregation in Pompton.

Dr. Macwithey married (first) in 1844,
Mary Helen Quinn, who died in 1880, a
daughter of Robert Quinn, of New York
City. He married (second) June 21, 1882,
Isabel Nostrand, daughter of Andrew and
Mary (Pierce) Nostrand, of New York
City. Children by the first marriage:
Edward L. C, who also became a physi-
cian in New York City, and is now de-
ceased, as are his three sisters; he mar-
ried Anna Belle Reamer, and they had one
child : Edward Louis, who married Alice
Linen, of Pompton. The only child of the
second marriage was Herbert Alonzo.
In his private life Dr. Macwithey was a
man of high ideals and rare attainments.
Intellectually he was a man of unusual
force and influence, and all who came in
contact with him felt the impress of his
personality. He was a deep and constant
student along many lines of research, and
possessed a wide and accurate fund of in-
formation, which made him at all times
a most interesting and instructive con-
versationalist. He loved his friends and
delighted in their company, for there was
in him none of the misanthrope. He had
no personal enemies and provoked no one
to enmity, for the simplicity and cordiality

of his nature and manners invited friend-
ship and disarmed enmity. His domestic
life was exemplary, his home a genial and
happy one, and he and his wife were held
in the highest esteem by all. Such a life
is a valuable asset to any community. To
young men of ambition, industry and
ability, it is an incentive to seek a career
that will not serve selfish interests alone,
but, by integrity of conduct and promo-
tion of public good, to lead their age a
little higher on humanity's upward path,
which at last shall be crowned with the
light of a perfect civilization.

IMLAY, Lewis Tilton,

Insurance Actuary.

In the passing of a man who has been
of proven value to his community, there
is always cause for sincere public regret,
and many were the expressions of sorrow
that followed the death of Lewis T. Im-
lay, who died at Atlantic City, July 10,
191 3. He possessed those excellent quali-
ties of manhood that attract, and during
his business life he established a reputa-
tion for unfailing integrity and commer-
cial honor that won him the highest com-
mendation. He was progressive and en-
ergetic in his business, alert and quick to
discern an opportunity, but never in his
desire to forge ahead willing to sacrifice
his good name or to stoop to question-
able practice. He was loyal to his friends,
cheerful in prosperity or adversity, sym-
pathetic and generous to those in distress,
and full of charity for those weak enough
to transgress human or Divine law. His
spoken promise he held sacred, prompt-
ness in business engagements and sturdy
honesty ever characterized him, and no
man in his city was more genuinely liked.
Although the memory of his splendid
business career will remain a worthy
monument to his ability and energy, he
will be longest remembered for his many

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deeds of charity and kindness, for the
purity of his private character, and for the
strength of his manhood.

Lewis T. Imlay was born in Northfield,
New Jersey, March 13, 1862, and died in
Atlantic City, July 10, 1913, only child of
Gideon T. and Sarah J. (Tilton) Imlay.
After completing his education, he enter-
ed business life and became one of the
best known insurance men of Atlantic
City. When C. J. Adams purchased the
extensive insurance business of his cousin,
I. G. Adams, he admitted Mr. Imlay, J.
B. Rogers and Lucius I. Wright as part-
ners, and until his death Mr. Imlay con-
tinued this association, succeeding J. B.
Rogers as secretary of the company sev-
eral years ago.

He was a Republican in politics, but
never sought public office, although for
one term he represented Ventnor City
on the Board of Freeholders, serving as
chairman of the finance committee. He
declined reelection and thereafter served
his community in a strictly private capa-
city. He was a well known and popular
member of the Masonic order, belonging
to Trinity Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, to the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
and Atlantic Commandery, Knights
Templar. He was a noble of Crescent
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He was a mem-
ber of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
Church, and faithful to his obligations.

Mr. Imlay married Irene C. Tilton, who
survives him. a resident of Atlantic City.
Children: Caroline, married Charles R.
Wilson, Horace G., and John, both resi-
dents of Atlantic City.

WOODWARD, Edward Stockton,

Man of Sterling Character.

A native and resident of New Jersey,
Edward Stockton Woodward was one of
the many who make Philadelphia the

field of their business activity, but whose
home and social interests lie across the
Delaware in Camden, New Jersey. Mr.
Woodward entered business life in Phil-
adelphia while yet below legal age, com-
ing from the farm to the city, and there
obtaining temporary employment while
seeking his niche in the vast business in-
terests of the Pennsylvania metropolis.
In 1872, the year in which he attained
his majority, he decided, with calm and
deliberate judgment, to establish as a
commission dealer in produce, taking his
place among the commission merchants
along Philadelphia's waterfront. From
the first he applied himself to the upbuild-
ing of a substantial, prosperous business,
and, with untiring industry, asking no
favors, learning more from reverses than
successes, he placed the house he found-
ed among the leaders in its line, the proud
occupant of a position fairly won. In the
crises of affairs he was strong and cour-
ageous, in his associations fair and up-
right, and his business owed its long and
successful continuance to the strict probity
and honor that characterized the trans-
actions of his house. His resourcefulness
and exceptional business acumen were
well shown during one of the infrequent
potato famines that have distressed agri-
culturists of the Atlantic States, when, to
meet the demands of a clamoring market,
he directed large importations of this
essential commodity from Ireland. For
more than four decades he was a con-
spicuous figure in commission dealings in
Philadelphia, and during this period he
gained, besides material independence,
the confidence and respect, the friendship
and regard, of his many associates. In
the provision business Mr. Woodward
was widely known and respected among
the farmers in all the districts adjacent to
the home market, as well as in the south,
especially in Virginia, where he bought
largely of produce. There he was always

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assured of a warm welcome and cheerful
greeting when traveling through the
State on a buying trip. He was a man of
kindly and charitable instincts, always
ready to contribute to a worthy cause,
and to give a helping hand here and there
to those who sought assistance. A num-
ber of the prosperous commission men in
Philadelphia and elsewhere owe their
start in business life to his assistance and
kindly advice.

Edward Stockton Woodward was born
at Green Tree (now Evesboro), Burling-
ton county, New Jersey, June i, 1851,
died in Camden, New Jersey, November
6, 1914. His education was gained in the
public schools of the locality, and his
youthful years were passed on his grand-
father's farm, which he left when deter-
mined to seek employment in Philadel-
phia. A carpet house offered him his
first situation, and in this place he remain-
ed until 1872, when, arriving at man's
estate, he inaugurated a venture which, in
its successful issue, brought him promi-
nence and prosperity. This venture, for,
because of his youth and inexperience it
could be called little more, was establish-
ment in commission dealings in produce,
which he did on a small scale on Dock
street, the principal headquarters for com-
mission houses in Philadelphia. Adher-
ence to the fairest of business laws, con-
siderate intercourse with the agricultur-
ists of the neighboring country, and per-
sistent and well directed endeavor
brought the volume of business transacted
in the Woodward name up to a standard
equal to that of the leading houses of the
city, a position it ably maintained during
Mr. Woodward's active years. He special-
ized in the handling of potatoes, and for
years was one of the most extensive
dealers in that staple in the region, and
on one occasion when the eastern crop
railed, resorted to the method previously
described to fulfill the demand. He was

the personal head of his business, plan-
ning and executing, retaining a firm grip
upon all of its activities until called from
all labor. Mr. Woodward was known and
appreciated for admirable qualities of
character and personality, and even in the
rush and press of business impressed his
associates and acquaintances with his
sterling worth and true manhood.

He was always greatly interested in
sport. In the palmy days of the trotting
horse, before the automobile came into
general use as a vehicle, Mr. Woodward
had his pleasure and recreation in own-
ing and driving blooded stock. In his
stable were to be found many of the fam-
ous horses of the time, one of which was
the celebrated "Major Ross," with a track
record of 2:161-2, trial speed of 2:11, and
matinee record to road wagon of 2:17 1-4.
Mr. Woodward was a member of the old
Belmont, Point Breeze and other trotting
clubs. A number of solid silver cups now
in the possession of his widow and son
testify to his success with his horses at
the various races in which they took part.
It was only when the automobile sup-
planted the horse as a roadster and the
latter had to give way to its speedier rival
that Mr. Woodward recognized the ad-
vantages of the motor car and sold his
stable.

Philadelphia claimed but his business
interests, for in all things else he was
closely identified with New Jersey and
Camden. He served the First Presby-
terian Church of Camden as a loyal and
devoted member, participating in many
branches of its work, and belonged to the
Republican Club, of Camden. In this
city, where his relations were other than
those of business, he is remembered for
a sincere and cordial manner, a warm and
hearty friendliness, and earnest cooper-
ation with all forces working for good,
whether in church, in civil or in political
life.

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Edward Stockton Woodward married
Elvira Moore, daughter of Isaac Van
Home and Mary Ann (Fitch) Moore, and
had children: Edward Stockton Jr., and
Ada Moore, deceased, married Artnur M.
Wood.

GUERIN, William Halsey,

Insurance Actuary.

Newark as a business center takes high
rank among the cities of the United
States, and William Halsey Guerin, of
this review, was an important factor in
sustaining her reputation in this direc-
tion. He stood at the head of one of her
leading enterprises, and was a wide-
awake, progressive business man, whose
well directed efforts resulted not only in
his individual prosperity but also pro-
moted the welfare of the community. The
world is not slow to pass judgment upon
the individual, and when a man has won
the high respect of those with whom busi-
ness and social relations have brought
him in contact, it is by reason of a well
spent and honorable life. Condemnation
comes quickly from the public, and es-
teem therefore indicates the possession of
worthy qualities and characteristics. He
was a son of George Barclay and Maria
(Powles) Guerin, the former a mason
and builder, who erected almost all the
older public buildings in the city of New-
ark.

William Halsey Guerin was born in
Newark, New Jersey, September 4, 1842.
He was the recipient of an excellent
education acquired in the following named
institutions: Dr. Rose's school, in New-
ark ; Dr. Pingrey's establishment, in
Elizabeth ; and Professor Saunder's
School for Young Gentlemen, in Philadel-
phia. For a time he was then associated
with his father in the building and con-
tracting business, and later became iden-

tified with a number of other enterprises
of importance. He was the senior member
of the firm of Guerin & Williams, insur-
ance contractors, and was the secretary
and treasurer of the Merchants' Insurance
Company of Newark. During the Civil
War he served as secretary in the New-
ark Hospital for Wounded Soldiers.
Always an ardent Republican, he gave his
earnest support to the interests of that
party, but his numerous important busi-
ness responsibilities prevented him from
accepting public office. He was a mem-
ber of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accept-
ed Masons, being one of the oldest memr
bers of the Masonic fraternity at the time
of his death, and was also a member of
the Royal Arcanum. He was a devout
member of the Clinton Avenue Dutch
Reformed Church, and a generous con-
tributor to its support.

Mr. Guerin married (first) October 21,
1867, Isabella, daughter of Robert and
Hetty (King) Duncan; (second) Febru-
ary 11, 1874, Sarah L., daughter of Wil-
liam Henry and Sarah Elizabeth (Desh-
ler) Nelson. Child of first marriage :
Hetty Isabel, born January 24, 1869.
Children by second marriage : Gertrude
Van Winkle, born September 25, 1876;
Deshler, August 23, 1878; George Bar-
clay, August 26, 1881 ; Henry Haworth,
March 30, 1891.

In social as in business life, Mr. Guerin
possessed a host of friends. Of a genial
and social disposition, he had won friends
all along the way of life, who gave him
their high regard by reason of his splen-
did character, his manly conduct, his
honorable dealing and his fidelity to every
duty. He was most hospitable by nature,
delighted in the society of his friends, but
was happiest in the role of host. His
home was a center of social enjoyment
and there his genial friendly qualities
were seen at their best.

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BUTTERWORTH, Theron Hervey,

Enterprising Citizen.

The era of large enterprises is upon
us and the day of small undertakings
has passed away. Men of master minds
have control of large concerns, and they
display sound judgment and keen dis-
crimination. They have gone into newer
and broader fields than did their prede-
cessors, and their leadership has taken
special lines. The men who have been
at the head of important commercial en-
terprises are the men who command the
respect not alone of the business world,
but of the entire community. Among
these captains of industry the late Theron
Hervey Butterworth, of Morristown,
New Jersey, commanded a leading posi-
tion. He was of English descent, his
father, Henry Butterworth, having been
a native of that country, coming to the
United States in childhood, and in early
manhood settling in Newburg, New York,
where he owned large farms, and, from
being connected with the freighting busi-
ness on the Hudson river, came to be
known as Captain Butterworth. He mar-
ried Charlotte Fowler, a sister of Dr.
Samuel Fowler, of Sussex county, New
Jersey.

Theron Hervey Butterworth, the
youngest of a large family, was born in
Newburg, New York, August 17, 1820,
and died in New York City, April 2, 1891.
His earlier educational advantages were
obtained in the Montgomery and New-
burg academies, of which the Rev.
Samuel Irenaeus Prime was principal
and he then took up the study of law
with Judge Brown, in Newburg, but never
followed the legal profession, as commer-
cial pursuits had a superior attraction for
him. He soon made his mark in the
business world, and became associated
with the New York Floating Derrick
Company, of which he was elected presi-

dent, and finally became the sole owner.
He was closely identified with this cor-
poration until the year 1867, when he re-
tired from all business occupations, and
retired to his country estate, three miles
out from Morristown. This beautiful
estate is called "Ventosa," and is located
in one of the most delightful portions of
Morris county, on the Mount Freedom
road ; it consists of one hundred and three
acres, a part of it near the house being
laid out in beautiful lawns and flower
gardens, while other portions form excel-
lent pasturage, and still others are left
with all their native beauty of forest
growth. While Mr. Butterworth was still
engaged in business life, he owned a large
quantity of valuable real estate in the
heart of New York City. He was a gentle-
man of the old school, his fine, courteous
manner and dignified demeanor, never
varying whether addressing "prince or
pauper." In political opinion he gave his
support to the Democratic party, but
neither desired, nor could he be induced to
accept public office. He was, however,
public spirited to a degree, and all projects
which had for their object the welfare
or improvement of the community, were
assured of his hearty and generous sup-
port. In especial he was a liberal donor
to the church and hospitals and institu-
tions of a kindred nature.

Early in life Mr. Butterworth married
a daughter of Dr. A. T. Hunter, a promi-
nent physician of New York, and from
this marriage there were four children,
three sons and one daughter. In 1867
he married Selina Shirley, a daughter of
the Rev. Samuel T. Gibbs, granddaughter
of the Rev. John Gibbs, of the Congre-
gational church. From this marriage there
were four children — three daughters and
a son. Mr. Butterworth died in New
York City, April 2, 1891, and was buried
in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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CHAMPION, Joseph Steelman,

Useful Citizen.

Descendant of one of the old and promi-
nent families of the colonial period in
New Jersey, Joseph S. Champion won for
himself an honored name in the county
of his birth, where for nearly half a cen-
tury he was engaged in business as cab-
inet maker and funeral director. In 1881
he moved from Mays Landing to Atlantic
City, there founding the business now
conducted by his sons. At that time he
was the only funeral director in Atlantic
City, and there had been but little done
to improve that section lying inland from
Baltic avenue. He became prominent in
business, prospered abundantly, and won
the esteem of all. He early saw the pos-
sibility of making Atlantic City a great
resort and invested heavily in real estate.
He was among the pioneers in apartment
house building, and the present Champion
Building is one of the many buildings he
erected. He conducted real estate opera-
tions in various sections of the city and
aided materially in the development of
Atlantic City, particularly that section
lying north of Baltic avenue.

Joseph Steelman Champion was born
on the family homestead near Mays Land-
ing, Atlantic county, New Jersey, Au-
gust 3, 1847, and died in Atlantic City,
June 2, 1915. When he was but a boy
his parents left the farm, locating in Mays
Landing, where he obtained a good educa-
tion in the public schools. He was bless-
ed with mechanical genius, was fond as a
boy of working with tools, and on arriv-
ing at suitable age began serving an ap-
prenticeship with his father, a carpenter
and cabinet maker. He became an expert
workman, and, choosing the finer branch
of his trade, confined himself to cabinet
making and other woodwork requiring

delicate skill. About 1870 he opened his
own shop in Mays Landing and to fine,
fancy, and artistic woodwork, furniture
and cabinets, he added an undertaking
department. With the introduction of
factory made furniture his trade languish-
ed, and undertaking became his principal
business. In 1881 he moved to Atlantic
City, locating at No. 1026 Atlantic ave-
nue. For ten years thereafter there were
but two funeral directors in Atlantic
City, and of these Mr. Champion was the
leader, a position he always maintained
even when numerous followers of his
calling made Atlantic City their places
of business. He moved his establishment
to the present location in the Pennsyl-
vania avenue building, continuing until
his death, his two sons coming with him
and in his later years assuming the heav-
ier burdens. He operated successfully in
real estate and profited greatly through
the growth of Atlantic City, a growth in
which he was an active agent. He was
popular in many fraternities, was highly
esteemed by his brethren and by the
public at large. Mr. Champion was a pio-
neer in his business and his services were
in demand in both city and surrounding
country. His life was a useful one, and
when old age overtook him he laid aside
his work without regret, for he had borne
well his part and was ready to render an
account of his stewardship. He was ill for
but six weeks at his home, No. 27 North
Pennsylvania avenue, and then peacefully
passed to his long rest. He is remembered
as one of Atlantic City's foremost citizens,
as a man of enterprise and integrity,
worthy of any trust.

Mr. Champion married, in 1876, Rachel
A. Bartlett, daughter of David G. and
Sarah (Chamberlain) Bartlett, who sur-
vives him with two sons. Otto M. and
Aaron S., and a daughter, Marjorie B.

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BEARDSLEY, George Austin,

Civil War Veteran, Master Merchant.

It is ever a great pleasure to record the
lives and achievements of those who have
been ready to sacrifice, not alone their
worldly wealth, but their very lives for
their country. Such a man was George
Austin Beardsley, late a resident of New-
ark, New Jersey, whose intrepid conduct
exerted a beneficial influence in a wide-
spread circle during the troublous times
of the Civil War. But it was not only as
a soldier that Mr. Beardsley earned merit.
In business circles his keen mind, great
foresight and sound judgment were of in-
estimable value. He was a son of Jus-
tice W. and Samantha (Riggs) Beards-
ley, of Sussex county, New Jersey, the
former having been president of the J. W.
Beardsley Sons' Company, wholesale gro-
cers.

Captain George Austin Beardsley was
born in Hamburg, Sussex county, New
Jersey, June 27, 1836. His education was
acquired in the schools of Paterson, New
Jersey, and he then learned the jewelry
trade with the firm of Allen Brothers,
of Newark. He abandoned this occupa-
tion, however, in order to go to Utah
as assistant to Hiram Morrell, who had
been appointed postmaster of Utah City.
About this time there was a supposed up-
rising of Indians who were afterward
proved to be Mormons attacking some of
their own people who, tired of the life,
were attempting to go back East. Albert
Sydney Johnson (who as a Confederate
army general fell in the battle of Shiloh,
in the Civil War), was sent to quell this
insurrection. Mr. Beardsley enlisted and
served three months, during which time
the troops cleared their way into Utah.
He assumed the duties of assistant post-
master, and in this capacity had charge
of the first stagecoach which took the
mail to San Francisco, California. This
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was in 1857, and they were in constant
danger of Indian attacks while en route.
One method of escaping these was to
make apparent preparations for camping
at night, light a large camp fire, and
under cover of this ruse leave it burning
while they made their way to another
section farther on, while the Indians in
all probability attacked their abandoned
camp when they supposed the white men
were sleeping soundly. When they ar-
rived at San Francisco they received an
ovation as bringing the first mails to that
city. Mr. Beardsley remained there some
months, and then took charge of a train
of wagons loaded with dry goods for Salt
Lake City. They encountered a number
of dangers on the way, but so eagerl}-
were their wares looked for that they
readily sold all from the rear ends of the
wagons. He then returned to his original
home, his companion on this trip being
a reporter of the New York "Tribune"
staff. On his arrival in Newark he be-
came associated with his father in the
wholesale grocery business, which was
carried on under the firm name of J. W.
Beardsley Sons of New York, of which
he later became president, an office of
which he was the incumbent at the time
of his death.

The connection of Mr. Beardsley with
the Civil War dated from, 1862. The sec-
ond commission issued in the Thirteenth
Regiment, New Jersey Infantry, was that
to Second Lieutenant George A. Beards-
ley, who at once proceeded to organize
a company — Company D — July 17, 1862.
This was filled by August 15, 1862, and
on August 22 of that year he was- ap-
pointed captain. He was an active par-
ticipant in many engagements, the most
important being those of Antietam, Chan-
cellorsville and Gettysburg. During the
evening of May 2, 1863, at Chancellors-
ville, being in the confusion separated
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ishers composed of men from General
Knipe's brigade, into breastworks con-
structed the day before but then occupied
by the enemy, and barely escaped cap-
ture. The following day he had com-
mand of the regiment, all of his superior
officers having become incapacitated for
active duty, and with words of encour-
agement made the men under him Tight
with redoubled ardor and bravery. While
the regiment was encamped at Duck
River bridge, Tennessee, Captain Beards-
ley was detailed to take command of six
companies of the Thirteenth Regiment,
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and One
Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, New
York Volunteer Infantry, to collect an
assessment of $30,000 in Lincoln county,
Tennessee, which had been levied by
General George H. Thomas for the fam-
ilies of the soldiers who had been killed
in that county by bushwhackers. Upon
his return to his regiment he was ad-
vanced to the rank of major January 8,
1864, but his impaired health would not
permit active service in this capacity for
any great length of time, and he resigned
his commission in April, 1864, and re-
turned to his home. He was a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of New Jersey, and of the Newark Board
of Trade. His religious affiliation was
with the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church,
in which he was president of the board of
trustees.

Mr. Beardsley married, in 1859, Henri-
etta C. Burnett, and they had children :
George A., now president of the firm of
f. W. Beardsley Sons; Susan B., married
Joseph A. Whittaker; Henrietta B., mar-
ried Augustus de Peyster Harlow.

OGDEN, Syndey Norris,

Accomplished Actnary.

Sydney Norris Ogden was born Au-
gust 7, 1853, in East Twenty-third street,

New York, then almost the outskirts of
the city.

His father, Morgan Lewis Ogden, had
been engaged in the cotton shipping busi-
ness in Mobile, Alabama, with his brother,
Charles Ogden; later he removed to New
York with his wife and four children, to
study law. In 1855 the family settled in
Washington, D. C, where Mr. Ogden Sr.
practiced law until 1S63, when business
in New York recalled him. While in
Washington, Sydney Norris Ogden was
a member of the famous Lincoln Zouaves,
and a friend and playmate of "Willie"
and "Tad" Lincoln. In 1865 the Ogden
family came to Newark, and occupied the
old Kearny house, then surrounded by
twenty-five acres, where Mr. Ogden lived
until 1900.

Mr. Ogden was a lineal descendant of
old John Ogden, who settled in Stamford,
Connecticut, in 1641, and later founded
the city of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
His son David moved to Newark, and
married Elizabeth Swaine, widow of
Josiah Ward, who had the distinction of
being the first to land on the banks of the
Passaic when the first settlers arrived.
The Rev. Uzal Ogden, great-grand-
Eather of Sydney Norris Ogden, was the
, lor of Trinity Church, Newark,
and was elected first Bishop of New Jer-
sey. Samuel Gouveneur Ogden, Mr.
Ogden's grandfather, was one of the
famous old merchants of New York City,
for many years a prominent figure in
financial circles. He financed the his-
torical "Miranda" expedition, for which
he was never reimbursed, but received a
vote of thanks from the first Congress
which assembled after Colombia had
thrown off Spanish rule. Samuel Gouve-
neur Ogden married Eliza Lewis, grand-
daughter of Francis Lewis, signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Eliza
Glendie McLaughlin, the mother of

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Sydney Norris Ogden, was born Sep-
tember 28, 1817, in Baltimore, Maryland,
and died December 23, 1862, in Wash-
ington, D. C. She was the daughter of
General Matthew McLaughlin, who
served with distinction all through the
War of 181 2, and Sydney Ravely Norris,
of Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of
Benjamin Norris, who was prominent in
the early history of Maryland.

Sydney Norris Ogden was educated
first in the public school, and afterwards
at the Newark Academy, where he gradu-
ated in 1869. He entered the United
States Coast Survey, where he served
until 1876, when he resigned to accept a
position as assistant in the mathematical
department of the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company of Newark, and
later became its actuary, death only ter-
minating his connection with the com-
pany. Mr. Ogden served two terms in
the common council of Newark, where
he was leader of the Republican members
on the floor and chairman of the finance
committee. He was one of the incor-
porators of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of St. James, a member of the
vestry from its inception, and for eight
years its treasurer. He was a member
of Northern Lodge, No. 25, Free and
Accepted Masons, and of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics.
In 1867 he was the organizer of the
Triton Boat Club, and was for over
twenty years an active member. He was
president of the Newark Tennis Club, a
member of the Actuarial Society of
America, the Wednesday Club, and the
North End Club, of which he was vice-
president and served on the board of
governors.

Mr. Ogden married, October 26, 1887,
Mary Stuart Depue, daughter of Chief-
Justice David Ayres Depue and Delia
Ann Slocum. Their children were Mrs.
Howard B. Norton, of East Orange ; Mrs.

Robert Needham Ball, Mrs. Joseph T.
Shaw, both of Montclair ; David Ayres
Depue Ogden ; and Sydney Norris Ogden
Jr.

No better idea of Mr. Ogden's per-
sonality can be given than the following
tribute published by the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company at the time of
his death :

The death of Mr. Sydney N. Ogden, actuary
of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company,
has occasioned profound sorrow amongst his
office friends and associates, and we who knew
him so well desire to pay loving tribute to his
memory.

Mr. Ogden's connection with the company
covered more than thirty years, and during that
long period he won for himself an exceptionally
high place in the confidence and esteem of those
with whom his relations were so close and inti-
mate. Men who for many years are related to
one another in business life have unusual oppor-
tunities to weigh and measure character — they
learn to know one another, and to arrive at
accurate personal values. It counts, therefore,
for much more than fulsome eulogy when those
who knew Mr. Ogden longest and most intimately
can speak so highly of his worth.

He was a man with a high sense of honor; he
was true and manly — generous and considerate,
and withal gifted with a personality so genial
and winning that men counted it as a privilege to
be numbered amongst his friends. No one can
measure the influence of such a man ; the record
of his life amongst us is a rich legacy, and will
long abide in our memories.

KIMBALL, Myron J.,

Financier, Enterprising Citizen.

In all of the relations that made up the
many phases of the busy and useful life
of Myron J. Kimball, he was connected
with New Jersey, since 1866 a resident
and business man of Vineland, but
through birth and the ties of ancestry he
was a son of New England. His, grand-
father, William Kimball, changed his
residence from Massachusetts to Ver-
mont, and there Charles A. Kimball,
father of Myron J. Kimball, was born.

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Charles A. Kimball was a contractor
and builder of Wallingford, Vermont,
during the greater part of his life, and
was there accidentally killed while razing
a building, April 13, 1865. His wife, Caro-
line C, who died in 1857, was a daughter
of William Kent, an early settler of Wall-
ingford, Vermont, member of the ancient
Kent family of Leicester, Worcester
county, Massachusetts. The many ties
that Myron J. Kimball sundered when he
chose a New Jersey home were likewise
those of his wife, Clara A. (Prince) Kim-
ball, whose family was of Maine resi-
dence. The position Mr. Kimball gained
in the Vineland community, where nearly
all of his interests centered, was one of
prominence and influence, and the fol-
lowing record of his life activity, told in
part in the words of his associates, is one
that, omitting nothing, speaks only of
merit and honor.

Myron J. Kimball was born in Walling-
ford, Vermont, December 17, 1846, and
died in Vineland, New Jersey, July 24,
1915. His education was obtained in the
public schools of his birthplace, which he
attended until his fifteenth year, and the
high school at Winchendon, Massachu-
setts, the latter place being the home of
his sister. He was nineteen years of age
when in January, 1866, he came to Vine-
land, New Jersey, and there began the
connection with the lumber business that
endured until his death. His first em-
ployment was in the planing mill of Earle
& Butterick, where he rose through
various grades of service to a managerial
capacity, with active charge of the busi-
ness. When the firm of Earle & Butter-
ick disposed of their property and interests
to D. A. Newton & Company, Mr. Kim-
ball was offered and accepted the position
of manager, which he had held under the
former control. This place he held until
1871, when he and W. V. and John Prince
purchased the business with which he had

so long and so honorably been identified.
As Kimball, Prince & Company, this com-
bination continued until 1876, when John
Prince retired from the firm, selling his
interest to his partners. Under the lead-
ership of Mr. Kimball its operations were
widely extended, branches were estab-
lished at Millville and Avalon, and a high
level of prosperity in the affairs of the
company was reached. Throughout the
lumber trade Mr. Kimball was known as
a progressive, able, and upright business
man, conducting his operations along
lines of fairness and absolute integrity.
He had few other business interests, but
as president of the Vineland National
Bank was in close touch with all business
and commercial enterprises of the locality.
He was one of the organizers of this
institution, which opened business under
its Federal charter in May, 1883, with a
capitalization of $50,000, and at the first
meeting of the stockholders was chosen
a director and vice-president. In the fall
of the same year the president, who had
been chosen at the election that placed
Mr. Kimball in the vice-president's chair,
resigned, and from that time until his
death Mr. Kimball was at the head of the
affairs of the bank as president, an office
he graced with commanding ability. He
was a member of the auditing committee
of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, being one of
the original auditors, and was also presi-
dent of the Siloam Cemetery Association,
of which he was for a number of years
director. He fraternized with the Ma-
sonic order, belonging to Vineland Lodge,
No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons. His
interest in the welfare and advancement
of his community did not take the form
of political activity, but in every project
aiming at the benefit of Vineland he was
an important factor, one of his latest acts
of public spirited generosity being a
liberal subscription to a fund for the pur-

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chase of modern fire apparatus for the
local company, a donation he made in the
name of his firm.

His long and valuable association with
the First Baptist Church of Vineland
forms one of the most interesting' chapters
in his life story, while his service to the
denomination was such that his death
creates a vacancy most difficult to fill.
Becoming' a member of the First Baptist
Church in 1867, he was for eight years
superintendent of the Sunday school, and
at the time of his death was senior mem-
ber of the board of deacons, to which he
belonged for twenty years. He was liber-
ally broadminded in his views, labored
with strong devotion in all departments
of his church, and followed the standard
of his Master in sincerity and love. His
long and untiring service in the local
organization was equalled by his work in
those associations whose scope is broader
and whose problems correspondingly
more perplexing, and for twenty-five
years he was a member of the board of
managers of the New Jersey Baptist
Convention, and for twenty years a trus-
tee of the West Jersey Baptist Associ-
ation. There came from the lips of his
pastor, Rev. A. Stokes Watson, at the
time of Mr. Kimball's death a beautiful
appreciation of his life and church ser-
vice, which is in part quoted below :

The place which has known him in the House
of God these many years will know him no more
forever, but the sweet and sacred memory of
his presence and his words, as well as the ex-
ample of his faithfulness, will abide until this
generation has been gathered to its fathers.
Yea, and long after, for the children and the
children's children will be told of him who,
through summer heat and winter cold, while
duties crowded upon him and the years multi-
plied, was always found in his place in the
House of God. As a citizen of this community
he was known as one of Vineland's "grand old
men." Every one loved him because he was
interested in every one. Every one honored

him because of his sturdy convictions. He be-
longed to every one, rich and poor, Jew and
Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. The children
were instinctively drawn to him and in him
found a true friend.

For fifty years he lived here this beautiful
brotherly life — a benediction of God. Many of
us know how profound was his faith in prayer.
Prayer was to him the way into a more intimate
fellowship with his Heavenly Father — the instru-
ment by which our wills are to be brought into
harmony with the will of God.

Deacon Kimball had profound faith in "the
eternal goodness." In his heart he sang with
Tennyson in his "In Memoriam." Always fear-
ful of himself he laid upon the goodness of God
as his sole hope. His life was one long psalm
of thanksgiving. His waking prayer was one of
joyful praise for another day of privilege.

But there was another realm to which he be-
longed— the home. What a home was that,
dedicated to piety, chastity, and hospitality!
What a heritage, his love, his precepts, the hal-
lowed associations of all these years!

Great as a Baptist, greater as a man, greatest
as a Christian, the world has had his life, the
denomination has had his services, the church
has had his counsel and fellowship, and the
community his example as a successful Chris-
tian merchant, and we may say of his relation
to all these what was said of Phillips Brooks in
his relation to Harvard University, "To them he
gave his constant love, large service, and high
example."

Myron J. Kimball married, June 3,
1869, Clara A., daughter of John Prince,
who came to New Jersey from Maine.
He is survived by her, one son, Eugene
M., and a brother, Charles A. Kimball, of
New York City.

HOWE, John,

Enterprising Manufacturer and Financier.

John Howe, who was prominently
identified with the manufacture of paper
in Nutley, was a native of England, his
birth having occurred in Kingsbroncton,
Somersetshire, England, on January 13,
1846. His parents were Matthew and
Elizabeth Jane Howe. For forty-five

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years his father was superintendent of
public works in his native city of Cardiff,
Wales, a position to which the subject
of this review could have succeeded had
he cared to remain in that country. His
desires were otherwise, however, and led
him to seek a home in America. He
obtained his education in the public
schools and served an apprenticeship at
the papermaking trade in Cardiff, Wales,
where he remained at that pursuit for
seven years. On the expiration of that
period he removed to Rumford, Essex
county, England, where he was employed
at the manufacture of paper for a short
time, after which he went to Belgium
and then returned to Cardiff. In that
city, in 1865, Mr. Howe was united in
marriage to Miss Elizabeth Gibbons,
whose parents had removed to Wales
from Cheltenham, England. To Mr. and
Mrs. Howe were born four children, all
natives of Cardiff. They were James J.,
who was born September 8, 1866; The-
ressa Jane, who was born in 1870; Ed-
ward John, who died at the age of six
months; and John Matthew, who died
at the age of three years. The mother of
this family died in 1871.

In 1872, when Mr. Howe was twenty-
six years old, he came to the United
States, and from that time until his death,
May 13, 1914, he resided in the vicinity
of Nutley, New Jersey. He was married
the second time in 1872, when Hester
H. Marshall became his wife. She is a
daughter of John L. and Mary Houseman
Marshall, who had formerly resided on
Staten Island. Two children grace the
union of our subject and his wife : Edith
S., born September 28, 1873; ar)d Albert
E., born December 10, 1880. Mr. and
Mrs. Howe were members of Grace Epis-
copal Church, Nutley, New Jersey. Mr.
Howe was a faithful communicant of the
church, as well as a very generous sup-
porter.

The year of his arrival in this country
he began a long association with the paper
manufacturing industry, securing a posi-
tion in the J. & R. Kingsland Mills, lo-
cated between Nutley and Delawanna.
Through succeeding grades of service he
rose to a responsible station in the oper-
ation of the mill, and when it discontin-
ued business he possessed a fund of
knowledge, experience, and capital that
enabled him to establish himself as a
manufacturer in partnership with Wil-
liam R. Sergeant and Thomas J. O'Neil.
The new organization was known as the
Kingsland Paper Mills Company, and
from the inauguration of the enterprise
the manufacture of safety paper was its
specialty, this paper particularly valuable
to organizations in which records and
transaction papers must be absolutely
immutable. This firm enjoyed a success-
ful and prosperous existence until 1909,
when it united with the LaMonte inter-
ests, whose mills were then the only other
source of like line of safety paper. In
the reorganization of the La Monte Com-
pany, Mr. Howe was elected to the office
of secretary, and continued in the admin-
istration of the affairs of the office until
his death, always a potent factor in direct-
ing its affairs and in determining its busi-
ness policy.

His business interests outside of the
manufacturing of paper, to which he gave
much of his best effort, were many and
important. Financially interested in the
Bank of Nutley, on April 28, 1914, he was
the choice of the board of directors to
succeed General Bird W. Spencer as chief
executive of the bank, but had held office
as president for but two weeks when his
death occurred. He was a director of the
Washington Trust Company and of the
Eagle Fire Insurance Company, both of
Newark, and was president of the Nutley
Masonic Hall Association, also holding

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the largest single amount of stock in the
last named organization.

A deep interest in the welfare of his
town led him to accept election to the
Board of Freeholders of Essex county,
in which he served two terms, and for the
same length of time he was a member of
the Nutley council after the change from
township to town government. He was
a member of the Masonic order and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
A life of useful activity, made valuable to
his community by generously bestowed
principles of strictest honor in business
as he faithfully discharged his obligations
as a citizen, so, he recognized and assum-
ed his responsibility toward his fellows,
and his helping, sympathetic hand cheered
and encouraged many whose spirit had
been humbled by misfortune. An editorial
in the Nutley "Sun," bearing testimony to
his worth and printed soon after his
death, said in part: "Friends of forty
years standing say that John Howe was
never changed by success. He was the
same friend always, and stories are told
now, by those he helped that never were
known in his lifetime."'

Such was the character of the life and
service of John Howe, that at his death
men in many walks of life realized a
personal sorrow, a distinct sense of loss,
for in the four decades of his association
with the Nutley district he had won for
himself secure position in the hearts of
his fellows, even as he had gained a
prominent place in the world of business.
Attaining a place of leadership in the
paper manufacturing industry, with
which he was identified from the time of
coming to the United States from his
English birthplace, he widened his inter-
ests to include financial and real estate
operations. He responded to the calls of
civic duty and held several offices, first
under the township and afterward under

the town government of Nutley, was
affiliated with the leading fraternal organ-
izations, and allied himself devotedly
with the best influences of the town for
its most effective service. Honored and
highly regarded during an active and
useful career, at his death every observ-
ance of respect and honor was paid him,
and in general regret of those who knew
him, the closing of the mills he founded,
and the official action of the institutions
with which he was connected, all Nutley
mourned the passing of one whose value
to the community stood beyond a price.

HUGHES, Robert Driver,

Bnsiness Man, Active in Educational

Affairs.

When the life story of Robert Driver
Hughes has been told and the factors of
its usefulness and success are reduced to
keynote characteristics, these are found
to be in his rugged honesty and conscien-
tious observance of every duty. By all
who knew him these virtues were
observed in every relation, and whether
in the field of business in Philadelphia,
where he was for many years prominent
in the fruit trade, or in the life of Wood-
bury, New Jersey, his long time home,
he held the respectful regard of his fel-
lows, whose confidence was his in un-
bounded measure. His devotion to busi-
ness brought him material independence
and a recognized position in the fruit
trade of Philadelphia, while in Woodbury
he was known as a constant friend of
every institution of which his town was
proud, its schools and Kemble Methodist
Episcopal Church his greatest care. His
death, coming in his seventy-fifth year,
removed from the Woodbury community
and the business fraternity of Philadel-
phia a member who in both places had
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integrity, and whose death was marked
and mourned.

A resident of New Jersey at his death,
the State was also his birthplace, the
Hughes homestead between Clarksboro
and Paulsboro, Gloucester county, New
Jersey, having been the place of birth of
several generations of his ancestors
Robert Driver Hughes, son of Presmul
and Sarah (Driver) Hughes, was born
October n, 1838, and while attending the
schools in the vicinity of his home was
his father's assistant in the agricultural
operations the elder Hughes conducted
on the home acres. He was one of a
family of fifteen children, eleven of whom
attained mature years, and youthful
ambition led him at an early age to seek
his own support, so that the burden of
his parents might in a measure be light-
ened. His first employment was in a
general store in Glassboro, New Jersey,
and he afterward moved to Woodstown,
there entering the employ of Risley &
Riley in a clerical capacity, his term of
service in this establishment numbering
several years. From Woodstown he went
to independent operations in Philadel-
phia, opening a place of business on Dock
street and beginning dealing in fruits.
He later moved his residence to Wood-
bury, New Jersey, and from that place
remained in charge of his Philadelphia
business. During the years of his business
activity in Philadelphia he never asso-
ciated himself with any individual or
concern, but from a modest beginning
built up a large and prosperous trade in
foreign and domestic fruits through his
own tireless and unaided efforts. His
success was rejoiced in by all of his busi-
ness associates, for his unswervingly
honorable methods of conducting his
business had won that meed of appreci-
ation and respect only accorded one who

adheres to high ideals even in the strife
of trade.

Although Mr. Hughes found enjoy-
ment in business pursuits, those of his
relations which probably gave him the
most joy outside of his beautiful home
life were his connections with the civic
and religious life of his town. These and
his Philadelphia interests, for his only
other business association was the oper-
ation of a canning factory for a number
of years, completed the orbit of his
activity, and within its limits he accom-
plished much of useful service. For
twelve years he was a member of the
Woodbury Board of Education, always
retaining an interest in matters educa-
tional, and he was one of the enthusiastic
workers for Woodbury's first high school,
turning the first spadeful of earth when
ground was broken for the building.
When fire destroyed the structure that
his efforts had helped to rear, he led in
the movement to raise funds for a build-
ing to replace it. Part of his twelve
years on this board was spent as its vice-
president, and his planning and striving
throughout this period bore good fruit in
improved school facilities for his town.
Kemble Methodist Episcopal Church had
in him a loyal and sincere friend, and for
a number of years he was president of
its Board of Trustees, guarding the ma-
terial welfare of the church with fidelity
and zeal. His home for many years was
at No. 165 Delaware avenue, and his con-
nection with Woodbury was one that at
?.!! times was a source of benefit to the
community.

Robert D. Hughes married Mary G.
Holmes, daughter of David and Caroline
(Gibbon) Holmes, and was the father of
Robert D. Jr., Malcolm, Carroll, and Wil-
liam, the last two deceased. Mrs. Hughes
survives her husband, a resident of
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SNEDEN, William S.,

Civil Engineer, Railroad Manager.

In 1657 there came from Amsterdam,
Holland, to New Amsterdam (New
York) Jan Sneden, arriving with his
brother Claes on the ship "St. Jean Bap-
tiste." Of the seventh American gener-
ation, descendants of Jan Sneden, was
William S. Sneden, of Red Bank, New
Jersey, son of Samuel Sneden, a boat
builder of Piermont, New York, and
grandson of John Sneden, a soldier of the
Revolution, whom tradition says, guided
the captors of Major Andre with their
prisoner, across the Hudson to Sneden's
Landing, thence to the American lines,
at Tappan, New York. The family home
was at Sneden's Landing, Rockland
county, New York, and one of the treas-
ures of George V. Sneden, of the eighth
American generation, is a desk upon
which it is said General Washington
wrote the order for Major Andre's execu-
tion.

Samuel Sneden, of the sixth American
generation, son of John Sneden, was a
boat builder, and is said to have invented
the centre board for sailing craft, and
early in the nineteenth century he built
at least one steam-boat. He married
Maria Verbryck, daughter of Samuel
Gerritsen Verbryck, an officer in Captain
Ward's company of New Jersey State
militia stationed at Hackensack, New
Jersey, and after the war served for twen-
ty-one years as a member of the New
York State Legislature, granddaughter of
the Rev. Samuel Verbryck, pastor of the
Reformed Church at Tappan, New York,
during the War of the Revolution, who
later secured from the Governor of New
Jersey the charter for Queen's (now Rut-
gers) College at New Brunswick, New
Jersey, and a descendant of an early
Dutch settler in New York.

William S. Sneden, son of Samuel and

Maria (Verbryck) Sneden, was born in
Piermont, Rockland county. New York,
January 2, 1829, and died in Red Bank,
New Jersey, April 14, 1905. He obtained
the necessary educational training, be-
came a civil engineer, and spent his entire
professional life in railroad constructive
and managerial work. His first work was
done for the New York & Lake Erie
railroad, becoming in 1849 assistant engi-
neer of the Dauphin & Susquehanna rail-
road. After four years' service with that
company he accepted an offer to go west
with an engineering party bound for St.
Louis, Missouri, and with that party he
made the first survey for the proposed
Ohio & Mississippi railroad. Later he
spent three years in Virginia as chief
engineer of the Fredericksburg & Gor-
donsville railroad, and then returned
north. He was chief engineer of the
Northern railroad of New Jersey, 1857-
60, then spent six years as first assistant
engineer, superintendent and lessee of the
Raritan & Delaware Bay railroad, later
known as the New Jersey Southern, a
road which in 1874 he was for a short
time in charge of as receiver, and general
manager for the bondholders' trustees,
who operated the road, until 1880. Mr.
Sneden was associated with other roads,
notably the Northern Central, the Jack-
sonville, St. Augustine & Halifax River,
the New York, Boston & Montreal, the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West, the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the
road that proved the great factor in New
Jersey coast development, the New York
& Long Branch Railroad, built by the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. This
road, connecting New York with Long
Branch, Asbury Park and the coast towns
south as far as Point Pleasant, was lo-
cated by William S. Sneden, and is the
work by which he is best known to the
residents of New Jersey. But his life
was a long succession of equally import-

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ant work and potent in developing many
sections of the country. He did not con-
fine his work to steam roads, but planned,
surveyed and superintended the construc-
tion of several electric lines.

After settling permanently in Red
Bank, New Jersey, Mr. Sneden served on
the board of water commissioners, and
planned and was in charge of the erection
of the reservoir and water works system
that supplies Red Bank. His life was a
busy, useful one, and all over this great
land, east, west, north and south, stand
monuments to his professional skill, con-
structive ability and managerial wisdom.
While never out of the harness entirely,
his later years were spent in Red Bank
in quietude and comfort. He was honored
in his profession, belonging to several
engineering societies, and was held in
esteem by a very large circle of acquaint-
ances in many states of the Union. He
was a Democrat in politics, a member of
the Dutch Reformed church in Piermont,
but he was an attendant of the Presby-
terian church in Red Bank.

Mr. Sneden married, in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, October 21, 1850, Mary
Elizabeth, born in Dauphin county, Penn-
sylvania, March 21, 1831, daughter of
Hiram Henry and Mary (Hochlander)
Hetzel, descendants of old German Penn-
sylvania families. Margaret Hetzel and
her daughter, Susan Riviere Hetzel, of
this family, were among the founders of
the National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. Major Abner
Riviere Hetzel, husband of Margaret,
was a graduate of West Point, an officer
in the Mexican War, and the engineer
who designed and constructed the Dela-
ware Breakwater. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Sneden: 1. William Louis, born
January 6, 1854, died December 25, 1897.
unmarried. 2. George Virginius, born
January 26, 1856. at Fredericksburg, Vir-
ginia ; a resident of Red Bank, New Jer-

sey; engineer, Maintenance of Way, New
York & Long Branch railroad ; married,
October 26, 1881, Ella A. Curtis, of
Holmdel, New Jersey. 3. Annie May,
born May 18, 1862, died August 22, 1904;
married Edward Delafield Smith. 4.
Riviere Hetzel, born September 5, 1866,
died July 3, 1896; married Anna Grant
Hubbard, who with daughter Doris
Riviere survive. 5. Mary Hetzel, born
January 2, 1871, died April 6, 1909. Mrs.
Sneden, the mother of these children, died
in Red Bank, New Jersey, June 29, 1904,
her husband surviving her death but ten
months.

KEELER, Morris H.,

Useful and Honored Citizen.

When there were performed over the
body of Morris H. Keeler the last sad
rites which had been held under his direc-
tion over the remains of so many hun-
dreds of Burlington county's people,
Mount Holly and the county sustained a
loss that was borne with sincere sorrow
and regret. Although Mr. Keeler was far
beyond man's average age, he occupied
so sincere a place in the hearts of Burling-
ton county's people and was the recipient
of such earnest affection that the realiza-
tion of permanent separation came as a
universal grief. In church, in social life,
and in his fraternities he held a place of
honor and respect, and his long life was
passed in ways of usefulness and service.
For more than three score years he was
engaged in undertaking in Mount Holly,
first under his father's direction, then as
a member of the firm of Thomas F.
Keeler & Sons, and finally independently,
and at his death in 1914 it was written
that he had directed the funerals of as
many persons as were at that time
resident in Mount Holly, more than three
thousand. Seven months prior to his
death he retired from the active manage-

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ment of his business, placing the respon-
sibility upon the shoulders of his grand-
son, Morris Keeler Perinchief, who for
several years had been his trusted and
capable assistant.

Morris H. Keeler was born in 1836, two
years after the business of which he be-
came proprietor had been founded in
Mount Holly by his father, Thomas F.
Keeler. He was educated in the Mount
Holly schools, and when a youth of six-
teen years of age began as his father's
assistant in the undertaking business.
The elder Keeler was likewise engaged
in lumber and retail furniture dealings,
and when Morris H. Keeler had gained
sufficient experience to enable him to
assume full charge of the undertaking
department, a condition at which, because
of his natural aptitude, he soon arrived,
the firm of Thomas F. Keeler & Sons was
formed. The sons were Morris H. Keeler
and Samuel B., and under that caption
the business was conducted until 1885,
when Morris H. became the sole owner
of the undertaking and furniture depart-
ments, the latter of which he abandoned
a few years afterward. His career as an
undertaker, covering a period of nearly
sixty-three years, was noteworthy not
only because of the great number of Burl-
ington county's residents he laid in their
final resting places but also because of
the long strides that have been made in
that profession. Improved methods and
modern inventions in the art and science
of embalming have created a wide gulf
between the undertaker of the past and
the funeral director of the present, and in
all things Mr. Keeler kept fully abreast
of the times. Reliability and proficiency
marked the work of his house, and his
establishment maintained worthy place
as a leader in its line.

Successful as a man of business, Mr.
Keeler was in intimate touch with the
life of Mount Holly through many con-

nections, chief of which was his close
identification with the Baptist church,
which he served for forty-five years as a
member of the board of deacons. He was
also at one time treasurer of this church
organization, and had performed much
service and had filled many positions in
the work of the congregation. He was
a devout and generous churchman, and
was also a member of the Mount Holly
lodges of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. As rugged in
character as he was in physical strength,
he won and held the respect and regard
of his fellows, and further endeared him-
self to them by a personality and manner
with which it was a joy to come into
contact. The comfort and solace that he
was able to bring to the many families,
stricken by grief and saddened by woe,
into whose circle he came at the most
dreaded of hours, cause many to remem-
ber him as one who, with kindliness, tact,
and consideration, lifted, as far as mortal
could, the cloud of gloom that had fallen
upon their homes. His instincts were
many generous impulses, and as through
the years he translated these impulses
into actions he gained for himself the
love and reverence of all who knew him.

In January, 1914, but a short time be-
fore his death, which occurred in Mount
Holly, his birthplace, July 27, 1914, Mr.
Keeler transferred the business, founded
by his father and continued by him, to
his grandson, Morris Keeler Perinchief.
Mr. Perinchief was his grandfather's
assistant during the last few years of Mr.
Keeler's life, and since becoming the
active head of the business has remodeled
and refurnished the parlors on Main
street, making them an ornament to that
section of the city. Mr. Keeler was one
of the managers of the Mount Holly
cemetery, and there he is buried.

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and is survived by one daughter, Laura,
who married Rev. Percy Perinchief, de-
ceased, a former superintendent of the
Trenton district of the Methodist Epis-
copal church.

LANE, Isaac,

Active

The history of a State as well as that
of a nation is chiefly the chronicles of the
lives and deeds of those who have con-
ferred honor and dignity upon society,
whether in the broad sphere of public
labors or in the more circumscribed, yet
not less worthy and valuable, of indi-
vidual activity, through which the general
good is ever promoted. Isaac Lane was
one of the successful business men of the
past generation, of Franklin, Essex
county, New Jersey, and his time and
means were ever freely given to the public
weal. His native ability was very great,
and he was possessed of a keen business
sense, and a shrewd perception of char-
acter which undoubtedly contributed
largely to his business success. Thor-
oughness, devotion to work, and an un-
shakable integrity, furnished the key-
notes to his business character, the other
side of which showed the broadminded
Christian gentleman. It is the example
of such men as this which raises the
standard of the community in every
direction.

Isaac Lane was born in Franklin, New
Jersey, March 5, 1830, and died in the
same town, March 9, 1906. He was a son
of William Lane, a carpenter, who mar-
ried Jane Pier, and had other children:
George, a resident of Newark, New Jer-
sey ; Maria, who survived her husband,
W. R. Congar; Esther; Sarah; Caroline.
I lis parents, not being richly blessed with
worldly wealth, were unable to give their
children a liberal education, and Isaac
Lane owes his rise to prosperity to his

own unaided efforts. He attended school
but a very limited period of time, and
supplemented the small stock of knowl-
edge he gained there by assiduous study
in his spare moments at home. At an age
when the majority of boys still have their
thoughts centered on play, Mr. Lane had
already commenced the active battle of
life, and this fact probably assisted in de-
veloping those admirable characteristics
of energy and progressiveness which ever
distinguished him. He obtained employ-
ment with the firm of Bush & Campbell,
tobacconists, starting with the position of
stripper, at which he earned twenty-five
cents per hundred pounds. Here his
faithful performance of the work assigned
him, the zeal he displayed, and the per-
sonal interest he displayed in whatever
was connected with the welfare of the
enterprise with which he was connected,
earned him advancement from one grade
to another, until he had thoroughly
mastered all the details of this business.
In 1866 he was admitted to a partnership
in the firm, which, from that time became
known as Lane & Lockward, and has
been in continuous operation for more
than a century. The executive ability of
Mr. Lane assisted greatly in increasing
the scope of the business, and it has
always held a foremost place in the list of
its competitors. The business respon-
sibilities of Mr. Lane left him little time
for social affiliation, and his only connec-
tion of this kind was with the Masonic
fraternity, in which he held the rank of
past master. The political support of Mr.
Lane was given to the Democratic party,
and he gave careful consideration to all
matters of public moment. He was en-
dowed with those qualities of intellect,
courage and good nature, which made of
him a companionable man, and he had
friends throughout the community.

Mr. Lane married, January 28, 1851,
Emma, a daughter of Cornelius Gould ;

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she died in 1869. Mr. Lane married
(second) in 1871, Susan, a daughter of
Moses Kinsey. There were no.children
by either marriage.

CALLEAR, Moses,

Prominent Manufacturer.

There is always an element of interest
attaching to the history of a man who has
shown his ability to cope with others in
the exciting race toward the goal of suc-
cess. Of the men who enjoyed in a great
degree the esteem and admiration of their
fellow citizens for the excellent work they
accomplished in their especial field of
endeavor, the name of Moses Callear, late
of Trenton, New Jersey, takes a promi-
nent place. The phenomenal growth of
many American cities is due, in large
measure, to the enterprise and intense
energy of a comparatively small number
of men. To them is due the inception of
work that employs thousands, and in
their imagination those movements first
take place which are the steps of progress.
The parents of Moses Callear were John
and Ann Statia (Lawton) Callear, whose
three sons died within six weeks of each
other.

Moses Callear, the youngest of these
brothers, was born in Birmingham, Staf-
fordshire, England, January 16, 1849, and
died at his home in Trenton, New Jersey,
April 6, 1914. Having obtained an excel-
lent and practical education in his native
land, he remained there until he was
about twenty-three years of age. At that
time he decided that there were better
opportunities to be met with in America,
and accordingly emigrated to this coun-
try in 1872. He soon became interested
in the art of pottery making, and his
interest enabled him to acquire the rudi-
ments of this manufacture in a compara-
tively short period of time, after which
he entered the employ of the Glasgow

Pottery Company, in Trenton, this being
at that time known as the John Moses
Pottery. The vitrification of sanitary
goods was considered impossible in the
United States, until Moses Callear ex-
perimented and produced a "vitreous
china" closet at the Maryland Pottery
Company in Baltimore, Maryland, in
April, 1891. It was conceded by many
leading potters to be the finest produc-
tion that had ever been made in sanitary
ware. The Maryland Pottery Company
turned their whole plant into a vitreous
sanitary pottery, which proved so suc-
cessful that every manufacturer of note
was compelled to make a vitreous body,
but none came up to the productions of
the Maryland Pottery Company — which
was perfectly vitrified and translucent.
Great credit was given to Mr. Callear,
who alone was responsible for the vitri-
fication of sanitary goods in America, as
his work and experiments proved that it
could be done. Mr. Callear resigned from
the Maryland Pottery Company to go in
business for himself with the Maddock
Pottery Company of Trenton, New Jer-
sey, where he introduced the well known
Lamberton china. This also was his own
production, and is very successful. True
worth and efficiency will sooner or later
win recognition, and it was not long be-
fore Mr. Callear was advanced to the
position of foreman in the clay shops, and
after proving his ability in this office,
became general manager of the entire
plant. Some years later he took up his
residence in East Liverpool, Ohio, be-
came the head of the Wallace & Chetwin
Pottery, and continued in this position
for some years, resigning it in favor of
that of general manager of the Knowles,
Taylor & Knowles Pottery, of East Liver-
pool, and remained with them a long
time. Being naturally of an enquiring
turn of mind, it was self-evident that Mr.
Callear should turn his attention to mak-

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ing experiments in his chosen field of
industry. Among these was a series of
experiments for the purpose of vitrifying
sanitary goods, and in order to promote
his idea in this direction, he removed to
Baltimore, Maryland, and there carried
out his work at the Brown Pottery. Pot-
ters considered this method an impossi-
bility until that time, and Mr. Callear was
looked upon as a pioneer in this line.
This Mr. Callear considered the greatest
achievement of his life's work. Mr. Mad-
dock, of the Maddock Pottery Company,
in Trenton, recognized the worth of this
innovation and the ability which had
originated so valuable bit of progress, and
offered very favorable inducements to
Mr. Callear to move to that city and be-
come a partner in the Lamberton Works
and later vice-president. After due con-
sideration, Mr. Callear accepted this offer,
and returned to Trenton, with which city
he was from that time identified until his
death. While there he continued his ex-
periments, which resulted in the manu-
facture of china of a very high standard,
and the annual output of the plant was
greatly increased under his able manage-
ment. He was universally recognized as
an authority of undisputed reliability in
the pottery trade. The religious affili-
ation of Mr. Callear was with the Epis-
copalian denomination, and his political
support was given to the Republican
party, although he never desired to hold
public office. Fraternally he was a Mason.
Mr. Callear married (first) Mary Man-
ser, of Trenton, and (second) in 1885,
Kate, a daughter of Jason and Catherine
Brookes, of East Liverpool, Ohio. They
had one daughter, Elizabeth. A man
of serious aims, broad views on all ques-
tions, generous ideals and shrewd busi-
ness opinions, Mr. Callear was well liked
in the business and social world. He was
genial and courteous on all occasions, and

his accurate estimate of men enabled him
to fill the many responsible branches of
his plant with assistants who thoroughly
understood the work they were called
upon to perform. As a citizen he was
esteemed by all, and in every relation of
life proved himself a man of high prin-
ciple.

JONES, Henry,

Honored Citizen.

Living close to nature all his life and
drawing from so pure a source his inspira-
tion, Henry Jones could not but be sound
to the core, as just and as fair as the
measure he gave and his life as whole-
some as the products he caused to spring
forth from Mother Earth. He was a type
of the hardworking, persevering farmer,
those who form the backbone of the State,
and while the public hears little from
them it is their conscientious labor, up-
right lives, and thoughtful political action
that constitute a nation's bulwarks. He
caused "two blades of grass to grow
where but one grew before," lived a life
of constant endeavor, and, dying, left a
precious memory to his family and
friends.

He was a grandson of Merbeth Jones
and a son of William V. Jones, both agri-
culturists of Gloucester county, New
Jersey. William V. was a farmer and
land owner of Logan township, Glouces-
ter county. He married Mary Sack, who,
like himself, was a native of Gloucester
county. She bore him six children : Ruth,
married Richard Batten ; Abram, a farmer
of Cumberland county ; Levi, a worker
in the lumber trade at Camden, now de-
ceased ; Henry, of further mention ;
Charles, a farmer of Berkley, New Jersey,
and William, who died in childhood.

Henry, son of William V. and Mary
(Sack) Jones, was born at the home-

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stead in Logan township, Gloucester
county, New Jersey, June 24, 1852, and
died at Swedesboro, New Jersey, Janu-
ary 10, 1913. He attended public schools,
and grew to manhood his father's farm
assistant. In 1878 he became the owner
of the homestead, bought by his father in
1830. There he was the prosperous
farmer until January 31, 1908, when he
moved to Swedesboro, and henceforth
lived retired from all business cares. He
built a home on East avenue, and there
resided until death, selling his farm prior
to his death to his son Clark. A feature
of Mr. Jones' farming was the excellence
of his methods and the great pride he
took in his being one of the "neatest and
best kept" farms in Logan township. He
made his fields to produce abundantly
and ever prospered. He was progressive
and utilized all aids to good farming that
were brought to his attention, and on his
own initiative inaugurated advanced
methods of seed selection and cultivation.
He was an authority among his neigh-
bors. Liberally giving of his means to
the needy, he was held in respect by those
who knew him, and lived a life free from
reproach. He died in the faith of the
Methodist Episcopal church, was a mem-
ber of the Ancient Order of United Work-
men and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, joining the latter order in 1873,
and was a Democrat in politics, but inde-
pendent in political action. His progres-
siveness, combined with great industry
and perseverance, brought him a com-
petence, and this he enjoyed to the full
after his retirement to Swedesboro. He
believed in the gospel of work, but asked
of no man he employed greater effort
than he himself put forth. His entire life
until the removal to Swedesboro was
spent in Logan township, and farming
was his life work.

Mr. Jones married Julia A., daughter

of William P. Zane, of Woolwich town-
ship, Gloucester county, who survives
him, a resident of Swedesboro. Children :
Levi S., born December 23, 1874, married
Anna A. Lamson and has Ethel, Lillian
M., Herbert, Julia A., Raymond, and Flor-
ence E. ; Mila Zane, born July 19, 1876,
married William H. Brown and has Ruth
H. and Amanda M.; Mary, born July 22,
1878, married Charles Lamson and has
Ellen H., Elsie B., William H., Howard
C, Mary Emma, Bertha B., and Oscar
L. ; Elizabeth P., born July 23, 1880, mar-
ried Franklin Bennett, and has Howard
H., Myrtle V., Clarence F., and Dorothy
E. ; Walter, born March 30, 1883, married
Elsie Schwible ; Clark, born May 12, 1885,
married Eva Leap, and has a son, Henry ;
Emma S., born August 14, 1887, married
Reuben Eves, and has a daughter, Alice
M. ; Clinton V., born February 14, 1895,
now a student at Drexel Institute, Phil-
adelphia.

William P. Zane, father of Mrs. Henry
Jones, was born at Repaupa, New Jersey,
August 5, 1824, died at Pitman, New Jer-
sey, January 29, 1909, after a life spent
entirely in agricultural pursuits. His
early life was passed in Paulsboro and
after a few years spent in farming for
others he purchased a small place and
married. Later he sold and bought sixty
acres near Bridgeport. This he profitably
cultivated for years, then sold and bought
a smaller place of ten acres, residing
there until his retirement to Pitman,
where he lived until his death.

HOPPER, Abraham, Henry A. and John
Ward,

Skillful and Eminent Physicians.

Very seldom is the biographer permit-
ted to sketch the salient features in the
life histories of three men linked as these
were in ties of relationship, of professional

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service, and of public approbation, and
the fragrance of whose lives survives like
that of perfume when the earthen vases
that held the treasures have been broken
by the hand of the Angel of Death.

Of Dutch ancestors, located in Bergen
county, New Jersey, and New Amster-
dam, New York, as early as 1653, the
Hopper family in each generation boasts
of men of eminence in public life, at the
bar, on the bench, in the medical profes-
sion, in business, and in social life. The
medical profession has perhaps attracted
them, more than any other, this record
dealing with three generations who have
added to the sum of human happiness
through their skill and learning, Dr. Abra-
ham Hopper, born in 1797; his son, Dr.
Henry A. Hopper, born in 1824; and his
grandson. Dr. John Ward Hopper, born
in 1856, all graduates of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City,
all eminent in their common profession,
and all located in Hackensack, New Jer-
sey, where for many years Dr. Abraham
and Dr. Henry A. Hopper were contem-
poraries. Their practice was general and
in the early days extended over a wide
territory. All were skilled in surgery as
well as in medicine, the youngest, Dr.
John- W. Hopper, being especially de-
voted to that branch of his profession ; he
gave to it careful preparation, it being his
expressed intention, after spending a few
years in general practice, to devote him-
self entirely to surgical work. But this
was not to be, for after three years of
practice death ended his most promising
earthly career.

Dr. Abraham Hopper was born at Ho-
hokus, Bergen county, New Jersey, April
26, 1797. died at Hackensack, in the county
of his birth, December 14, 1872, aged
nearly seventy-six years. His early life
was spent at the paternal farm and his
early education was secured in local
schools. He completed his academic

study in New York City, then returned
home and in due course of time began the
study of medicine under the guidance of
Dr. John Rosencrantz, of Hohokus. He
studied under that competent authority
for one year, then entered the office of Dr.
Valentine Mott, of New York City, study-
ing under him and attending lectures at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
until graduated Doctor of Medicine in
1818 at the age of twenty-one years. The
following year he located in the then
small village of Hackensack and there
practiced his profession with but little
interruption until his death, a period of
fifty-three years, giving to his native
county his best, and indeed the whole,
energy of an active and laborious pro-
fessional life. The country surrounding
Hackensack was sparsely settled and the
town itself was small. Under such cir-
cumstances his large practice involved
much driving and his life was one of
"spending and being spent" in the relief
of human suffering. He kept himself
familiar with current medical literature
and scientific events, and was ever fully
abreast of his times. Always an advocate
of progressive science and an earnest sup-
porter of every effort for its maintenance,
it is no surprise to find his name among
the six physicians who in 1854 applied for
and obtained a charter for organizing the
District Medical Society of Bergen Coun-
ty. Under his leadership, with the other
five physicians, including his son, Dr.
Henry A. Hopper, the society was organ-
ized in February, 1854, and Dr. Abraham
Hopper was elected its first president. At
the annual meeting following he was re-
elected to preside over the deliberations
of the society and again the following
year the honors of the presidential office
were conferred upon him. During the
active years of his connection with the
society, he cheerfully contributed to its
interest and usefulness by both written

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articles and oral discussion. Among his
contributions to the literature of the soci-
ety are two which were particularly well
received, one of them a paper entitled
"The Duties of Medical Men in Their
Intercourse with Patients," the other
"Hydrops Uteri." Dr. Hopper continued
his active membership in the society until
October, 1871, when, in consideration of
the increasing infirmities of his age, he
was, by a unanimous vote of the organiza-
tion, relieved from the discharge of his
ordinary duties and his name placed upon
the roll of honorary membership. While
Dr. Hopper was skilled in all forms of
medical practice he was particularly fond
of surgery, and was rated as an operator
in that branch of his profession. He was
a man of strict private and professional
integrity and won his way into the very
hearts of his people by his direct honesty
of purpose, his sympathy, and his willing-
ness to serve them in their hours of need.
He was of the best type of the old-time
country doctor, who, in sickness or health,
birth or death, joy or sorrow, was the
friend of all ; the depository for all their
sorrows, joys and hopes; whose kindly
advice guided the young, warned the mid-
dle aged, and comforted the old. He mar-
ried Euphemia De Wolf and they had ten
children, several of whom died young. He
was an active member of the old Dutch
"Seceder" Church.

Dr. Henry A. Hopper, son of and for
several years contemporary with Dr.
Abraham Hopper, was born in Hacken-
sack, New Jersey, August 8, 1824, and in
1882, after a useful life of fifty-eight years,
passed to a higher and nobler sphere. He
was a lifelong resident of Hackensack,
and from the date of his graduation from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
was identified with everything pertaining
to the prosperity of the town in which his
life's interests were centered. He was
but twenty-three years of age when he
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began the practice of medicine, but he
very soon rose to a position of promi-
nence and won a secure place in the affec-
tions of his townsmen. After he com-
pleted his classical studies he began a
course of medical training under his hon-
ored father, then entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City,
whence he was graduated Doctor of Medi-
cine in the spring of 1847. During the
earlier years of his practice he rode and
drove a great deal, answering calls from
far and near, but with the rapid growth
of Hackensack the town made larger and
larger demands upon his time, and in his
later years his practice was almost exclu-
sively confined to its limits and suburbs.
He possessed rare skill as a surgeon was
particularly sure in diagnosis, and very
successful in practice. Upon the same
strong foundation of character and hon-
esty that his father built he erected his own
professional edifice, and with his greater
opportunities advanced the family name
and fame, handing down to his son the
same high inheritance he received from his
father. Professional honors were accord-
ed him by his brethren of the district and
State, and he was the recognized organ-
izer of the Hackensack Board of Health,
of which he was the honored and efficient
president. He was one of the six physi-
cians who joined in a call for a medical
society in Bergen county, and was chosen
secretary of the first meeting. He was
president of the District Medical Society
in 1878 and 1881, its secretary in 1879,
and was ever active in its affairs. He was
president of the New Jersey State Sani-
tary Association, vice-president of the
New Jersey State Medical Society, men>
ber of the American Medical Association,
and president of the Bergen County Med-
ical Society. He contributed many papers
to all these societies. He built a stately
residence on North Main street and was
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tending to the advancement of Hacken-
sack's prosperity or to add to the public
good. He was a man of high character,
genial and sympathetic, loved by his many
friends in all parts of the State and in
New York City, where he was frequently
called in consultation in important cases.
As a member and officer of the Second
Reformed Church he was most highly
esteemed, and when, at the age of fifty-
eight years, in the full prime of his man-
hood and professional achievement, he
was summoned by the Great Physician,
he was mourned as an honored citizen, a
devoted Christian, a faithful husband, a
kind father, and a true friend. He was
survived by his wife, Maria Colfax
(Ward) Hopper, a son, Dr. John W. Hop-
per, and two daughters, to whom fell the
privilege of cherishing his memory and
honoring his name.

Dr. John Ward Hopper, only son of
Dr. Henry A. and Maria Colfax (Ward)
Hopper, and the third and last in this
noted family of physicians, was born in
Hackensack, November 7, 1856, and died
there June 13, 1890. He was graduated
from the College of the City of New
York in 1876, then entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of
1879. While a medical student he took a
special course in microscopy and acquired
such skill that for some time he made
many of the microscopic tests in Dr.
Alonzo Clark's office. He was a diligent,
earnest student, giving thorough atten-
tion to every branch of the profession he
intended to follow, but was especially de-
voted to surgery. After his graduation at
the head of his class he was for eighteen
months on the surgical staff of Roosevelt
Hospital. He then received a high honor
from Dr. Henry Sands, who asked him to
take charge of his "Quiz" class, that being
the first time he had given it to another.
He kept the class during the winter and

the following year he spent in Vienna at
the hospitals of Vienna and Prague, work-
ing under eminent specialists, Doctors
Virchow, Schroeder and others. Con-
cluding his studies abroad, in 1882 he re-
turned home, beginning practice in Hack-
ensack, his birthplace, hallowed by memo-
ries of his honored sires. Three years
there permitted him, to exercise his talents
and skill for the relief of suffering, then
his promising career was cut short by
death. All who knew him held him in
the highest esteem and to the entire com-
munity, as well as to the profession in
which he had already attained distinction,
his early death came as a severe loss. He
was president of the Bergen County Med-
ical Society and a member of other learned
societies ; a communicant of the Second
Reformed Church ; and a member of
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. His ideals
were lofty, and in his brief life he upheld
the best traditions of a family that for
two and a half centuries has been con-
spicuous in the history of Bergen county
and of the State of New Jersey.

PARRY, Samuel, Rev.,

Clergyman, Antiquarian.

The Rev. Samuel Parry was born at
Lambertville, New Jersey, March 29, 1845,
and died at his home on East Main street,
Somerville, New Jersey, September 9,
1915, son of Samuel and Selinda (Van
Syckel) Parry. His paternal ancestors
were members of the Society of Friends
and to this fact may be traced some of the
more prominent traits of his personality,
and some of his more distinct preferences
in things religious. His ancestors came
from Wales to this country near the close
of the seventeenth century and settled in
the Penn Colony near Philadelphia, where
many of his relatives yet reside. His ma-
ternal ancestors, Van Syckel, came from
Holland in 1658, settled on Long Island,

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New York, a branch later settling in New
Jersey. Samuel Parry, father of the Rev.
Samuel Parry, was a miller, son of Samuel
Parry, a farmer near Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. Selinda Van Syckel was a
daughter of Daniel Van Syckel, a mer-
chant of Milford, New Jersey.

Not long after the birth of the Rev.
Samuel Parry, his parents moved to Clin-
ton, New Jersey, where at the age of
sixteen years he joined the Presbyterian
church. He attended the public schools
until about seventeen, then entered Blairs-
town Academy, where he thoroughly pre-
pared for college. He chose Yale as his
alma mater, there pursued a full course,
a conscientious, painstaking student,
ranked in scholarship in the upper third
of a class of strong men, and was gradu-
ated A. B., class of 1868. Of strong build
and great physical as well as intellectual
power, the young man took the keenest
delight in athletics, and at Yale was
prominent in aquatic sports. He made
his freshman crew, rowed in the Varuna
shell in his sophomore year, rowed in the
varsity crew against Harvard in his junior
and senior years, being stroke of the var-
sity shell in the memorable race with Har-
vard in 1868, which was rowed on Lake
Ouinsigamond at Worcester, Massachu-
setts. He was also Commodore of the
Yale navy, and is remembered at Yale as
one of the men of the long ago whose
courage and determination carried the
"blue" to victory and built up that tangi-
ble something known as the 'Yale spirit."
The next four years following his tri-
umphs and graduation at Yale, with Phi
Beta Kappa mark in scholarship, were
spent: One year at Blairstown Academy
as instructor, two years at Princeton in
theological study at the seminary, one
year at Union Theological Seminary, New
York City, whence he was graduated,
class of 1872. Thus prepared for the holy
profession he had chosen, he became a

member of the Elizabeth (New Jersey)
Presbytery, and on April 30, 1873, was
ordained and installed pastor of the Pres-
byterian church at Pluckemin, Somerset
county, New Jersey. There he took root
in the hearts of his people and for exactly
thirty-three years they knew no other
pastor and he no other pastorate ; in fact
Pluckemin was his first, last and only
pastorate, although after his resignation,
April 30, 1906, until his death, he found
congenial fellowship and a sphere of in-
creasing usefulness as teacher of a Men's
Bible Class in Somerville First Reformed
Church, and as an interested helper in the
chapel at East Somerville. The Pres-
bytery of Elizabeth chose Rev. Samuel
Parry as its permanent clerk in 1885, and
in 1888 he was chosen to be its stated
clerk, an office he held continuously until
the day of his death. He represented the
Presbytery at three sessions of the Gen-
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian church,
was for a long time permanent secretary
of the Raritan Ministerial Association,
and from its organization until 1912 was
secretary of the Inter-Church Federation
of Somerset County.

Mr. Parry was a life-long student of
history, and after his retirement devoted
a large part of his time to historical re-
search and reading. He was an authority
on local history and biography, his inves-
tigations covering the entire history of
the Raritan Valley. On Tuesday, March
12, 1901, he delivered an historical dis-
course on the occasion of the fiftieth an-
niversary of the organization of the Pluck-
emin Presbyterian Church, in which he
sketched the history of the churches of
the village and vicinity from the year 1720
and gave the biographies of the pastors
and most of the ruling elders of the Pres-
byterian churches since 1851.

A notable attendance of his fellow min-
isters on the occasion of his simple funeral
gave evidence of the high esteem in which

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he was held. From the discourse de-
livered by the Rev. Dr. John T. Kerr, we
quote :

Samuel Parry needs no one to speak for him.
His life has been an open book. It speaks for
itself to all who look or listen. He was a man
physically. God had endowed him richly with
strength which he loved to use in work or sport,
and coupled with his great strength was great
skill. He could throw himself into a hard ath-
letic struggle, then turn from it and, taking into
his strong hands so small an instrument as a
pen, he could produce handwriting which seemed
rather the work of an engraver than that of an
athlete. He was a Christian man in every sense,
and a manly Christian. Men took refuge under
the shadow of his manliness. He merited their
confidence by the integrity of his own character,
and rewarded it.

Wherever he was known, that same feel-
ing of confidence was felt. His brotherly
manner, his modest bearing, the evident
sincerity of his Christian life and the
genial play of his humor greatly endeared
him to all. After his death the Synod of
New Jersey, in a manner unusual to that
body, thus expressed their appreciation of
his life and service:

The committee appointed to examine the rec-
ords of the Presbytery of Elizabeth make note
of the fact that the hand which for twenty-seven
years has been submitting the records of this
Presbytery to the Synod is now stilled in death.
The work of Rev. Samuel Parry as stated clerk
of the Presbytery of Elizabeth has been notable
for the period of its continuance and the remark-
able fidelity with which it has been performed.
The volumes of minutes as written by him are
models of neatness and accuracy and it is recom-
mended that the Synod bear testimony to this
fact by entering this statement upon the minutes
of the Presbytery of Elizabeth.

Rev. Samuel Parry married at Somer-
ville, New Jersey, December i, 1875, Har-
riet E. Cornell, who survives him. Dur-
ing their forty years of married life, Mr.
and Mrs. Parry made many extended
tours of travel both at home and abroad,

their foreign journeyings including tours
of the Holy Land and Europe. After his
retirement they removed to Somerville,
New Jersey, where Mrs. Parry yet resides.
Their only child, a son, born March 24,
1881, died the following day.

Mrs. Parry is a daughter of Rev. Fred-
erick Frelinghuysen Cornell, a former
pastor of Pluckemin Presbyterian Church,
son of Rev. John Cornell and his wife,
Maria Frelinghuysen, daughter of Gen-
eral Frederick Frelinghuysen of the cele-
brated New Jersey family. Rev. John
Cornell was born at Northampton, Penn-
sylvania, in 1774. He pursued courses of
classical study at the Log College, Ne-
shaminy, Pennsylvania, entered Queen's
College at New Brunswick where he com-
pleted his course in 1795. He then pur-
sued the study of theology under Dr.
Livingston, at Flatbush, Long Island, and
was licensed to preach about the year
1798. He was engaged in the holy calling
of a minister of the Presbyterian church
from 1798 until 1821 at Allentown, New
Jersey. He was highly regarded as an
amiable and faithful teacher of the Gospel.
In 1821 he retired from the active min-
istry, and from that year until 1828 con-
ducted a classical academy at Somerville,
New Jersey, and from 1828 until 1835 a
similar institution at Millstone, New Jer-
sey, where he died. In his academies he
devoted himself seduously to the instruc-
tion of youth, and there passed from under
his teachings many young men who later
became eminent in the ministry and other
learned professions. Professor Lindsey,
of Princeton, voiced his appreciation of
his work by a public statement that of all
the students who came to him none were
better prepared than those who came from
under the instruction of the Rev. John
Cornell. He married Maria, daughter of
General Frederick Frelinghuysen, a lady
of great amiability and eminent piety.

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Rev. Frederick Frelinghuysen Cornell,
son of Rev. John Cornell and his wife,
Maria Frelinghuysen, was born at Allen-
town, New Jersey, November 16, 1804.
He was graduated from Princeton (Col-
lege of New Jersey), class of 1825, and
New Brunswick Theological Seminary,
1828. He became a member of the New-
town Presbytery in 1829; professor of
languages, College of Mississippi, at Nat-
chez, 1828-29; missionary at Stuyvesant
for three months in 1829; at Columbia-
ville, 1829-31; at Marshallville, 1831-32;
Montville, 1833-36; pastor of Manhattan
Reformed Dutch Church, New York City,
1836-56, and pastor of Pluckemin Presby-
terian Church, 1856-64. In 1866 he re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Union College. He died August 7,
I875, aged seventy-one years, half a cen-
tury of which had been spent in the Chris-
tian ministry as student, instructor, mis-
sionary and pastor. He was a man of
strong intellectuality, consecrated pur-
pose and charming personality. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Clock Bell, daughter of
Jacob and Phebe (Clock) Bell, who was
born February 28, 1822, died February 21,
1882. Their eldest daughter, Harriet E.
Cornell, married the Rev. Samuel Parry
whom she survives. To the memory of
three earnest, faithful, consecrated min-
isters of the Gospel and their devoted
wives, this tribute of love and respect is
dedicated.

EMERY, John Runkle, LL. D.,

Lawyer, Jurist.

When on December 31, 1915, Judge
Emery retired by resignation caused by
ill health, he had held the high position
of vice-chancellor of the State of New
Jersey for twenty years under appoint-
ments from Chancellors McGill (1895),
Magie (1902), Pitney (1909). He was a
native son of New Jersey, a graduate of

her great university, a soldier of the State,
serving in the Civil War, a member of the
State bar, an advisory master in chan-
cery, and vice-chancellor. He was in his
seventy-fourth year and there was no
period during those years when New
Jersey was not his residence and the
scene of his labors. The Commonwealth
of New Jersey has never lacked noble
sons.men of learning and high character,
who as lawyers and jurists have been her
pride, men who by their devotion made
"Jersey Justice" proverbial, and a terror
to evil doers. Among all the bright gal-
axy of sons who have adorned her bench
no name outranks that of John Runkle
Emery for faithfulness, broad and deep
knowledge of the law, fairness, sound
judgment and common sense. His de-
cisions as vice-chancellor fill thirty-two
volumes of the Equity Reports of the
State of New Jersey, a fact remarked by
Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze :
"The best tribute that could be paid to
Mr. Emery's memory."

Vice-Chancellor Emery was a son of
William Patry Emery, born near Flem-
ington, New Jersey, July 17, 1811, died
there in 1888, one of the successful busi-
ness men of his day and an honored citi-
zen. He began business life as a clerk at
the age of fourteen years, opened later a
general store in Flemington under his
own name, became a leading merchant of
that town, continuing until 1864, when he
sold his mercantile interests to engage in
timber land and lumber dealing in North-
ern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He
was mainly instrumental in the construc-
tion of the Flemington Railroad to con-
nect with the Central Railroad of New
Jersey at Flemington Junction ; was one
of the organizers of the Hunterdon County
Bank, serving on the directorates of both
railroad and bank. He was a devout
Presbyterian, served as elder for many
years, was deeply interested in the work

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of the American Bible Society and County
Bible Society, and aided in all good works.
He married Ann Runkle, who was highly
esteemed in the community for her broad
charities and many adornments of char-
acter, being ever distinguished for her
service to others. She was a remark-
able woman in many ways, possessing a
wonderfully retentive memory, a pleasing
personality, was a great reader of good
literature, an active factor in church work
and charitable organizations, and was a
noted character for the aid rendered the
soldiers by her during the period of the
Civil War.

John Runkle Emery, son of William
Patry and Ann (Runkle) Emery, was
born at Flemington, New Jersey, July 6,
1842, died at his home in Morristown,
New Jersey, January 30, 1916. He ob-
tained his early education in Flemington
private schools, continuing his studies at
Dr. Augustus Studdiford's School at Lam-
bertville, and Edge Hill School at Prince-
ton, New Jersey. In 1858 he entered
Princeton University, collegiate depart-
ment, whence he was graduated A. B.,
class of 1861, president of his class. He
was then nineteen years of age, but had
decided upon the profession he would fol-
low, and immediately after graduation
from Princeton began carrying his plans
into effect. He began the study of law
under the direction of Bennett Van Syc-
kel, later a Justice of the Supreme Court,
and Abraham V. Van Fleet, whom Mr.
Emery succeeded as vice-chancellor, both
then eminent members of the Hunterdon
county bar. His legal study continued
until August, 1862, when he decided it
was his duty to march to the defense of
his country's flag. He enlisted as a pri-
vate in the Fifteenth Regiment, New
Jersey Volunteer Infantry, known as the
"Mountain Regiment," having been re-
cruited from the hill sections of Warren,
Sussex and Hunterdon counties. The first

engagement of this regiment was at Fred-
ericksburg, after which it took part in the
famous "mud march." It was next engaged
in the Chancellorsville campaign, and in all
of these Mr. Emery was an active partici-
pant. He received the commission of
second lieutenant, but after an attack of
dysentery he was sent from Bakersville
to Baltimore and not recovering health
was honorably discharged, February 23,
1863, on surgeon's certificate of disability ;
he was not in battle but in active service.

Returning home he resumed his law
studies under his former preceptors, con-
tinuing until entering Harvard Law
School, where he was a student during
the years 1863-64. In the latter year he
received the degree of A. M. from Prince-
ton, and in 1865 passed all the required
tests and was admitted to the New Jersey
bar as an attorney and in 1868 as a coun-
sellor. He began the active practice of
his profession in Flemington, in 1865, be-
ing admitted a partner with his former
preceptor, Abraham V. Van Fleet. This
relation existed one year, then was ter-
minated by Mr. Emery's removal to Tren-
ton, where he became a partner with
former Senator Augustus G. Richey.
They practiced very successfully until
1874, when Mr. Emery's health failed and
he was advised to take a trip abroad,
where he remained one year, then re-
turned with health restored.

On his return from abroad Mr. Emery
located in Newark, New Jersey, where he
engaged in practice and won high recog-
nition as an able lawyer. In 1885 he was
appointed advisory master in chancery by
Chancellor Runyon. He grew rapidly in
legal power and in public esteem. He
was ever a hard worker and was noted for
the great painstaking and conscientious
labor he performed in the preparation of
his cases. Clear and concise in his argu-
ment and authority, eloquent in his
speech, he was a powerful advocate of the

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cause he represented. In 1901 Princeton
University recognized the learning and
ability of her son and conferred upon him
the honorary degree of LL, D. On Janu-
ary 29, 1895, he was appointed vice-chan-
cellor by Chancellor McGill, succeeding
his former preceptor and partner, Abra-
ham V. Van Fleet. At the expiration of
his term in 1902 he was reappointed by
Chancellor William J. Magie, and was
appointed for a third term in 1909 by
Chancellor Mahlon Pitney, now a justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. During his terms as vice-chancel-
lor he held his chambers in Newark, re-
siding, however, in Morristown, New Jer-
sey. In 1912 his health again failed and he
took a short rest later resuming his judicial
duties, but was not ever again in good
health. In September, 1915, he had a
severe attack from which he did not fully
recover, and he then tendered his resigna-
tion to take effect, January 1, 1916. It
was accepted and he was placed upon the
retired list under the veterans retirement
act of 1912. He took an active interest in
the Uniform Divorce Law Congress.

Shortly after his retirement Mr. Emery
was presented with a silver loving cup in
honor of his twenty years and eleven
months' service, coming as a gift from
Chancellor Edward Robert Walker and
Vice-Chancellors Frederic W. Stevens,
Eugene Stevenson, Edmund B. Learning,
James E. Howell, Vivian M. Lewis, John
H. Backes, and John Griffin. Mr. Emery
was ill at his home and could not receive
the donors, therefore, the honor of making
the presentation was delegated to the
Vice-Chancellor's old friend, Wickliffe B.
Sayre, sergeant-at-arms of the local Chan-
cery Chamber, who performed the duty
on Thursday. January 27, 1916, three days
preceding his death.

Vice-Chancellor Emery was a Republi-
can in politics. He was a member of the
standing committee of the diocese of

Newark, first chancellor of the diocese
appointed by Bishop Edwin S. Lines,
and for many years was a vestryman of
the Church of the Redeemer at Morris-
town. He was a member of the New Jer-
sey State Bar Association ; New York
Chapter, Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States; A. T. A.
Torbert Post, Grand Army of the Re-
public, Morristown ; Washington Associ-
ation of New Jersey ; Fifteenth Regiment
Association of New Jersey Volunteers ;
Essex Club of Newark ; Morristown,
Morristown Field and Morris County Golf
clubs of Morristown, and a life member of
the American Bible Society. His college
fraternities were: Phi Kappa Sigma and
Clio Hall, Princeton University.

Vice-Chancellor Emery married at
Mount Savage, Maryland, October 6,
1885, Alia, daughter of James S. and
Annie (Robb) MacKie, and in 1891
located their home in Morristown where
Mrs. Emery continues her residence.
Children: Allita, born January 10, 1887,
wife of Paul Ray Applegate, of Pitts-
burgh ; John MacKie, born August 15,
1888; Steuart MacKie, born January 12,
1891 ; Theodore, born November, 1893.

While there were many tributes paid to
the memory of Vice-Chancellor Emery by
his brethren of the bench and bar and by
organizations of which he was a member,
one of the most touching was that paid by
the members of the Lawyers' Club of
Essex County where the older members
of the club spoke feelingly of their dead
friend while the younger members paid
tribute as listeners.

The meeting was called to order by
President Frank Bergen and on motion of
Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze,
Vice-Chancellor Frederic W. Stevens was
chosen as presiding officer. Vice-Chan-
cellor Stevens remarked that "No sadder
task could be imposed upon one than that
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friend." He then read a lengthy eulogy
of Mr. Emery.

Richard V. Lindabury, Robert H. Mc-
Carter and Edward M. Colie were named
a committee to draw up suitable resolu-
tions on behalf of the club and later in the
meeting submitted the following minute,
which was read by Mr. Colie.

The members of the Lawyers' Club of Essex
County, as an expression of their high apprecia-
tion of the Honorable John Runkle Emery, late
vice-chancellor, unanimously adopt the following
minute:

More than twenty years prior to his appoint-
ment to the equity bench, Mr. Emery adopted
this as his home bar. He quicky and easily won
for himself the respect and admiration of the
profession, and a place as a leader not only here
but throughout the State. This position was
justly his in recognition of his character, his high
ideals, his uniform professional courtesy and his
learning. In 1895, upon the death of Vice-Chan-
cellor Van Fleet, the selection of Mr. Emery as
his successor, not only met with approbation,
but was welcomed as an appointment of one
especially equipped for the place. For more
than twenty years it has been our privilege to
practice before him as a vice-chancellor. Not
only did he possess character, good judgment
and learning — essentials in a judge — but his
equity knowledge was so complete and he pos-
sessed such skill in applying it that he became
conspicuous throughout the country as an ex-
ceptionally able equity judge. He was called
upon to decide many of the complicated and
novel questions involved in the important litiga-
tion of recent days and he has made one of the
largest and most important contributions to the
equity jurisprudence of this State. His mind
was mature. He heard a cause patiently, con-
sidered it conscientiously and brought to its
solution his extraordinary knowledge, and liti-
gants in most cases were willing to rest upon his
decisions as just and final. He was a man of re-
markable industry and his fidelity to his work
beyond all question shortened his life. In his
death this bar has lost a revered member, the
equity bench an efficient and distinguished vice-
chancellor and the State a citizen who has well
and conspicuously served it and brought to its
courts high honor. We direct that this minute
be entered at length upon the records and re-

quest a copy recorded in the minutes of the Cir-
cuit Court of this county and a copy sent to the
family of Vice-Chancellor Emery.

After the reading of the resolution Sec-
retary Clarence S. Blake read a letter
from Chancellor Edwin R. Walker who,
after deploring his inability to be present,
owing to illness, paid a high tribute to
Mr. Emery's worth as a lawyer and a
vice-chancellor.

Justice Swayze said that the work of
Mr. Emery would live forever in the juris-
prudence of New Jersey, and cited the
fact that his decisions filled thirty-two
volumes of the equity reports of the State
of New Jersey, the total reports for the
States filling eighty-two volumes. This,
declared Justice Swayze was the best
tribute that could be paid to Mr. Emery's
memory.

Richard V. Lindabury said :

The estimate of the character of Vice-Chan-
cellor Emery, as given by Vice-Chancellor Ste-
\ens and Justice Swayze were so accurate in
describing his attainments and his work that it
is not necessary to say anything more except
that they speak for the bar. To the members of
the bar he was what he was to his associates on
the bench. He was an able and fair judge. He
had an instinct for the truth and an instinct for
the right in a case. Even if he had not been the
Ijreat lawyer he was he would have been a great
/udge.

Judge Frederic Adams, of the Circuit
Court, who was a classmate of the late
vice-chancellor at the Harvard Law
School, in 1863, said :

Many were more intimately acquainted with
him at the bar, but few here knew Mr. Emery
earlier than I did. It is more than fifty years ago
in the winter of 1863 that I first met him. Then
we were fellow students at Harvard Law School,
together with Nehemiah Perry, Henry Young,
J6b H. Lippincott and Abram Q. Garretson.
Those four are all gone, and the veteran jurist's
voice trailed off to a whisper, as he slowly said,
"now Emery is gone."

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Judge Adams said he had always re-
gretted that the path of Mr. Emery and
himself in legal work kept them apart,
except on rare occasions, and paid a high
tribute to him as a judge and a lawyer.

Others who spoke were former At-
torney Robert H. McCarter, Edward Q.
Keasby, Clarence Sackett and Edwin J.
Raynor, the latter having been a student
in Mr. Emery's office in the early 8o's.
He related many instances of kindliness
and carefulness with which Mr. Emery
aided those in his office.

COOK, Joseph Swift,

Old-School Physician.

About 1640, Ellis Cook settled at South-
ampton, Long Island, New York, and
there three succeeding generations of
his descendants resided, through whom
Joseph Swift Cook traced his lineage.
The line of descent is through Abiel Cook,
son of the founder, Abiel (2) Cook, his
grandson, and Ellis Cook, his great-grand-
son, who first settled in Morris county,
New Jersey, in Hanover township. This
Ellis Cook was the father of Colonel
James Cook, who moved from Hanover
to Succasunna, Morris county, and there
lived for many years. Colonel James
Cook married Ruth Pierson, who died in
I795- They were the parents of Dr. Silas
C. Cook, father of Joseph Swift Cook.

Dr. Silas C. Cook was born December
25, 1791, died in 1873. He was four years
of age when his mother died and after
his father's second marriage, he was
adopted by Mrs. Judge Condit, of Morris-
town, New Jersey, by whom he was care-
fully reared. He was educated in the
public schools and in the town academy,
obtaining a good English education. He
chose the profession of medicine and pre-
pared therefore under the guidance of Dr.
Lewis Condit, one of the leading physi-
cians of Morris county. In addition to

his study under Dr. Condit, he attended
the courses of medical lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania during the
winters of 1812 and 1813. On September
13, 1813, he was licensed to practice by
the New Jersey State Board of Examiners,
and at once began practice at Hughesville,
Warren county. He there formed a part-
nership with old Dr. Hughes, one of the
early practitioners of Warren county, and
continued with him one year. He then
located at Stewartsville, New Jersey, re-
maining there until 1828, when he moved
to Hackettstown, New Jersey, there con-
ducting a successful practice until 1842.
From 1842 until 1857, he was located at
Easton, Pennsylvania, there being rated
as one of Easton's most skillful and suc-
cessful physicians. In 1857 he returned
to Hackettstown, New Jersey, and con-
tinued in practice until his death in 1873.
He was the perfect type of the old school
country doctor, bluff, frank and out-
spoken, devoted to his profession, every-
body's friend and everybody's confidant.
It is hard to realize in this day just what
the country doctor meant to the commu-
nity in those days. He covered a wide
extent of territory which he rode on horse-
back. There were no drug stores, which
meant he must carry his medicines, there
were no specialists, which demanded that
he be physician, surgeon, oculist and den-
tist, prepared to set or amputate a limb,
pull a tooth and treat every form of dis-
ease. There were few ministers in the
early days and often it was the lot of the
doctor to read the last prayer and utter
the last words over a departed one. The
young came to him for advice and the old
looked to him for the work of comfort and
hope to cheer them in their closing days.
Long and wearisome rides were his por-
tion, tempestuous weather must not delay
him and often on a return from a night's
work he must at once respond to an
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The matter of keeping his books was one
of haphazard and payment for services
quite as much so. He was rich only in
the love of his people and his estate was
usually a great many thousand dollars
worth of bills receivable. These were all
experiences of Dr. Cook's earlier years of
practice, but in the later years he confined
himself to town work. He was an elder
of the Presbyterian church, and took a
deep interest in the moral welfare of the
communities in which he labored. He
was one of the few early Whigs in Hac-
kettstown and in later years affiliated
with the Republican party.

Dr. Cook married, in 1816, Mary, daugh-
ter of James Hyndshaw, of Stewartsville,
New Jersey, her father at one time sheriff
of Sussex county, New Jersey. He was
of Scotch descent, served in the Revolu-
tionary War, was taken prisoner and
nearly died of starvation. After the war
he came to Greenwich township, pur-
chased four hundred acres of land, which
upon his death was divided among his
four children, each of whom received a
farm. Mrs. Cook died in 1872, the de-
voted mother of many children, several of
whom were taken from her in childhood.
Those who grew to mature years were:
James H., a merchant of Easton, Penn-
sylvania, who died in 1880; Dr. Lewis S.,
who practiced his profession in Hacketts-
town until his death in 1874; Silas C, a
lawyer of Easton, Pennsylvania, who died
in 1864; Dr. John S., a physician of Hac-
kettstown until his death, and Joseph
Swift, to whose memory this sketch is
dedicated.

Dr. Joseph Swift Cook was born at
Hackettstown, New Jersey, March 26,
1830, died July 4, 1903. His early educa-
tion was obtained at the Model School
connected with Lafayette College, Easton,
after which he entered the college proper,
remaining during the years 1847-48. He
chose the profession of law and for

eighteen months pursued legal study in
Easton. In January, 1852, he entered
Union College, Schenectady, New York,
whence he was graduated in 1853, with
honors, becoming a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa fraternity. He did not con-
tinue legal study, but after his graduation
from Union College he began the study of
medicine under the preceptorship of his
honored father, Dr. Silas C. Cook, then
practicing in Easton. Later he entered
the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania, whence he was gradu-
ated M. D. in March, 1856. During the
following year he was engaged in hos-
pital work in Philadelphia, as resident
surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital, and in
practice at Easton as his father's assistant.
In the spring of 1857 he entered into a
partnership with his brother, Dr. John S.
Cook, then practicing at Hackettstown,
and continued that association for two
years. In 1859 he located at Washington,
Warren county, New Jersey, where he
continued a successful practice until his
death at the age of seventy-three years.
Dr. Cook's private practice from gradu-
ation until death was only interrupted by
his service as surgeon in the Union army
during the Civil War. In September,
1862, he was appointed and commissioned
first assistant surgeon of the Thirty-first
Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
by Governor Charles S. Olden. After a
few months service he was taken with
typhoid fever, and after his recovery pri-
vate business was so pressing that he re-
signed his commission. In 1865 Lafa-
yette College conferred upon him the
honorary degree Master of Arts, and on
September II, 1877, he was elected a fel-
low of The American Academy of Medi-
cine. He was also a member of the
county and state medical associations.

As a physician and surgeon, Dr. Cook
ranked very high and was much sought
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with whom he lived and moved for over
forty years he was held in the highest
esteem, not more for his skill in minister-
ing to their physical needs than for his
admirable social qualities. Warm hearted,
sympathetic and public spirited, he re-
sponded to every private or public de-
mand made upon him, while his profes-
sional skill was freely given to those from
whom no payment could be expected.
Few men occupied so busily as he who
had so many warm friends nor was there
ever a man more loyal to his friends.

Dr. Cook married, November 4, 1857,
Carrie H. Hunt, daughter of Rev. H. W.
Hunt, of Schooley's Mountain. Children :
Dr. Frank M. Cook, now a practicing phy-
sician of Hackettstown, New Jersey;
Fannie H., married William S. Ritten-
house; Laura W., a graduate physician,
married Augustus P. Hann, who died
December II, 1887. Laura W. (Cook)
Hann obtained her professional education
at The Woman's Medical College, Balti-
more, Maryland, whence she was gradu-
ated M. D., class of 1892. She received
her literary education at Centenary In-
stitute, Hackettstown, New Jersey, gradu-
ating in class of 1882 with degree of M.
E. L. She engaged in active practice for
a few years but is now retired.

Carrie H. (Hunt) Cook descended from
Thomas Hunt, who married Ciceley Pas-
ley and came to America in 1652. They
were members of the Church of England
of the strictest and highest sect. Their son,
Thomas (2) Hunt, married Elizabeth Jes-
sup and lived at West Farms, New York.
Their son, Thomas (3) Hunt, born 1663,
also resided at West Farms. He married
Elizabeth Gardiner, of the Lord Gardiner
family of England. Their son, Augustine
Hunt, born 1716, married Lydia Hol-
loway, born in Massachusetts of Welsh
descent. Their son, Holloway Whitfield
Hunt, born April 9, 1769, was a graduate
of Nassau Hall, Princeton, class of 1794.

He became a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church, later transferred his
allegiance to the Presbyterian church and
served the congregation at Sparta, New
Jersey, as pastor for seven years, and the
churches at Bethlehem and Alexandria
for forty years and also was settled over
the church at Kingwood. He married a
Miss Willis, a cousin of the poet, N. P.
Willis. Their son, Holloway Whitfield
(2) Hunt, born at Sparta, New Jersey, in
1799, was an active minister of the Pres-
byterian church from early manhood until
near the close of his life, which ended at
the age of sixty-nine. His first and only
charge was the church at Pleasant Grove,
New Jersey. He was a graduate of Prince-
ton, and during his clerical life tutored
many young men who wished to enter
college. He married Amanda, daughter
of Lawrence and Mary Hann. Their
daughter, Carrie H. Hunt, married Dr.
Joseph Swift Cook. Their daughter, Dr.
Laura W. Cook, married Augustus P.
Hann. Their son, Philip H. Hann, is a
resident of Washington, New Jersey.

The Hunt family crest is: "A lion's
head erased per pale, argent and sable
collared gules, lined and ringed or." They
were large owners of land on Long Island
and in 1686 possessd all of that section
now known as Hunters Point.

HANN, Augustus P.,

Well-Known Public Official.

The Hanns of Morris county, New Jer-
sey, trace descent to William Hann, who
with his wife, Elsie, came from Germany
to this country in 1732, and after a brief
residence on Long Island settled at
Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey, in the
year 1754. He purchased one hundred
and fifty acres of land there, and devoted
himself to its cultivation until his death in
1794, aged ninety years. His wife died in
1791, at about the same advanced age.

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Some time prior to his death, he sold the
farm to his son, Jacob, who died suddenly,
leaving a son, Philip, who purchased the
homestead from the other heirs and there
resided until his death in 1821, leaving
children : Mary, Jacob, of further men-
tion, Elizabeth, John, and Philip.

Jacob Hann, son of Philip Hann, was
born in 1782, and resided on the home-
stead farm on Schooley's Mountain until
1809, then moved to Mansfield township,
Warren county, New Jersey, where he
bought a farm. He continued his resi-
dence in Mansfield until about 1824, then
returned to the old homestead on Schoo-
ley's Mountain ; later he occupied his
farm in Mansfield township and there he
died in 1867. He was a strong and promi-
nent Democrat, holding the office of jus-
tice of the peace in both Morris and War-
ren counties, being first appointed in 1816.
During his second residence in Morris
county, he was elected and for five years
served as judge of the Court of Common
Pleas. He was a man of sound judgment
and clear brain, well informed and much
sought for as a conveyancer and legal
advisor. He was a member of the Pres-
byterian church, while first residing in
Morris county, but in Warren county
united with the Methodist Episcopal
church at Anderson. Judge Hann mar-
ried, in 1802, Susan Gary. Children : Ann
Eliza, Clarissa, Ellen, Jane, Philip H., of
further mention, Tamzen, Jacob, and Ra-
chel.

Philip H. Hann was born in Mansfield
township, Warren county, New Jersey,
August 6, 1819, and died May 7. 1900.
His youth and early manhood were spent
on the paternal farm, his education ob-
tained in the public school, Schooley's
Mountain Academy, and under the pri-
vate instruction of Rev. Holloway W.
Hunt, a graduate of Princeton and pastor
of the Schooley's Mountain Presbyterian
Church. In 1848 he rented the home farm

of his father and there resided until 1854.
In that year he was elected surrogate of
Warren county, an office which he held
for five years, during which period he
resided in Belvidere, the county seat. In
the spring of i860 he moved to Washing-
ton, New Jersey, where for two years he
engaged in business as a merchant. He
was appointed judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for Warren county in
1864, an office he held through successive
re-appointments for ten years. In 1864
he aided in the organization of the First
National Bank of Washington, was elected
its first cashier and held that position all
through his service as judge of the Court
of Common Pleas and for many years
thereafter. He was advanced to vice-
president and later to president, which
position he was filling at the time of his
death. He was also a director of the Phil-
lipsburg Bank for several years and other
important business interests. He was an
able financier and in his capacity of
cashier exercised an influence which prac-
tically amounted to a controlling interest.
In 1878 he was elected county collector,
an office he held through succeeding re-
elections for several terms. He was highly
regarded by his fellow citizens without
regard to party, his continuance in public
office being regarded as good public
policy. Both he and his father served as
judge of the Court of Common Pleas, the
father in Morris and the son in Warren
county, and both retired from the office
with the entire respect of the legal frater-
nity.

Judge Philip H. Hann married Caroline
C, youngest daughter of Rev. Johnson
Dunham, an early minister of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and his wife, Mary,
eldest daughter of Daniel Hunt. Both
Judge Hann and his wife were active
members of the Washington Methodist
Church. Children : Mary, married Rev.
S. W. Gehrett, a Methodist minister of

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the Philadelphia Conference; Augustus
P., of further mention ; and Louis J.

Augustus P. Hann was born in Belvi-
dere, Warren county, New Jersey, Febru-
ary 15, 1856, died in Washington, New
Jersey, December 11, 1887. His education
began in private schools and was con-
tinued at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston,
Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated,
class of 1875. He then was a student at
Wesleyan College for one year but did
not complete his collegiate course, decid-
ing against a professional career, which
had been his ambition. He next spent
some time in study for business life at
Eastman's Business College, from which
he graduated, then entered the employ of
the First National Bank of Washington,
of which his father had been cashier since
its organization in 1864. He began as
assistant cashier and proved so efficient
an assistant that in the course of time he
was promoted to cashier, a position he
was holding at the time of his death, hav-
ing also been elected vice-president. He
was a man of pleasing personality, very
popular, not only in Washington but
throughout the entire county. He drew
men to him by his genial, friendly manner
and held them to him through his many
manly qualities. He took a deep interest
in public affairs even before becoming a
voter, and had barely attained his major-
ity when elected a member of Washing-
ton's Common Council, an office to which
he was elected over and over again until
he refused longer to serve. In 1884 he
was elected county collector, an office in
which his honored father had served and
to which the son was reelected in 1885
and 1886. He was one of the best loved
young men in Warren county and all de-
plored his early death. On the day of his
funeral every business house in Washing-
ton was closed as a mark of respect to
the memory of the young man whose
hand was always extended to aid those in

distress and whose genial, cheerful dis-
position had so endeared him to so large
a circle of true friends.

Mr. Hann married Laura W., daughter
of Dr. Joseph Swift and Carrie H. (Hunt)
Cook, of Washington, New Jersey. After
the death of her husband, Mrs. Hann took
a course at the Woman's College, Balti-
more, whence she was graduated, M. D.,
class of 1892. For several years she prac-
ticed the profession to which so many
Doctor Cooks have devoted their lives
and which profession they have honored.
Dr. Hann is now retired from practice, re-
sides in Washington, her only son, Philip
H. Hann, also a resident of that borough.

SANDYS, Arthur,

Student. Scholar, Historian.

This name originally Sands was by act
of Legislature legally changed to Sandys
at the request of Arthur Sandys, to whose
memory this sketch is dedicated. De-
prived of both of his parents when two
years of age, Arthur Sandys grew to
youthful manhood at the home of his ma-
ternal grandparents in New York City, by
whom he was given every advantage and
educational opportunity. When a young
man he went abroad and in the cities of
the Old World spent several years. He
was a man of cultured tastes and culti-
vated mind, a heritage from his French
maternal ancestors, the de Normandies,
who, for their Protestant faith, sought
refuge in Geneva and resided there for
several generations until the whirligig of
fate again drove them forth for serving an
earthly monarch, Frederick I., of Prussia,
as the first de Normandie had fled from
Noyon, France, for allegiance to his
spiritual king.

Mr. Sandys was an insatiable reader of
biographies of great men, a student of
history and the historian of the family.
He spent much time while in Europe in

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searching French and Genevese records,
with the result that he gave to the world
a valuable contribution to its literature in
"Annals de Normandie," an exhaustive
historical and genealogical account of the
de Normandies, their times and the part
they played in French and Genevese his-
tory (see de Normandie line). This was
but one of his contributions to American
literature, his writings being numerous.
He was not bound continuously to busi-
ness life, but devoted long periods to
travel and study as inclination seized
him, indulging in all the pursuits and
pleasures of a gentleman.

There is reason to believe that the name
was originally Sandys, and that the Amer-
ican family is descended from Henry
Sandes, Sands, or Sandys, who came from
Yorkshire to America probably earlier
than 1638, and was one of the founders of
Rowley,' Massachusetts. He died in Bos-
ton in 1654. His wife, Sybil, whom he
married in England, was the mother of
James Sands, one of the founders of the
town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
This town embodies Block Island, and
was represented in the Rhode Island As-
sembly in 1665 by James Sands. He was
born in Yorkshire, England, 1622, and
died at Block Island, March 13, 1695, and
was buried there. He had grants of land
in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, October 5,
1643, and August 29, 1644; was made free-
man there 1655; was commissioner to the
General Court, May 19, 1657 ; was con-
stable in 1654, and deputy to the General
Court in 1655. In April, 1661, he sailed
with a party which went from Taunton,
Rhode Island, to settle Block Island ; was
tax rater in 1670 and 1671, and deeded the
land on which he settled to his son, John,
November 15, 1690. He married, 1645-46,
Sarah, daughter of John and Catherine
(Hutchinson) Walker. John Walker was
a freeman in Boston, May 14, 1634; was
among those condemned for adherence to

the religious teachings of Ann Hutchin-
son, and removed to Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, about 1637-38. John Sands, eldest
child of James Sands, born 1649, suc"
ceeded his father on the paternal home-
stead in Block Island, had a gant of land
at Portsmouth, May 27, 1674, was deputy
from Block Island in 1678 and 1680-81.
In 1 691 he removed to Cow Neck, on
Long Island, where he purchased, for
two hundred pounds, a farm, deed dated
December 25, 1691. He married in New
Shoreham, Sybil Ray, born March 19,
1665, daughter of Simon (2) and Mary
(Thomas) Ray, granddaughter of Simon
(1) Ray, of Braintree, Essex, England,
and died at Braintree, Massachusetts,
September 30, 1641. Mary Thomas was
a daughter of Nathaniel Thomas, born
about 1606, in Wales, died February 13,
1674, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. John
Sands died March 15, 1712, at Cow Neck,
and his wife, December 23, 1733. Both
were buried in the Sands graveyard there.
Their eldest child was John Sands, born
January 22, 1684, on Block Island, and
died at Cow Neck, August 30, 1763. He
removed from Block Island, about 1716,
and built a house at Cow Neck, which
was subsequently occupied by his son.
About 1733 he purchased from his brother,
Daniel, the paternal homestead there, on
which he thereafter resided. He married
at Newport, Rhode Island, September 9,
1706, Catherine Gutherie, born June 24,
1690, on Block Island, died at Sands
Point, February 10, 1769, daughter of
Robert and Anna (Alcock) Gutherie,
granddaughter of Dr. John and Sarah
(Palgrave) Alcock, both natives of Eng-
land. Dr. John Alcock graduated at Har-
vard University, and was the purchaser
of Block Island from the Indians. He
was a son of George Alcock, who came
over with Governor Winthrop, was also
a physician, and died December 30, 1640,
at Roxbury, Massachusetts. His wife was

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a Hooker. John Sands, eldest child of
John and Catherine (Gutherie) Sands,
was born January i, 1708, on Block
Island, and died at Sands Point, Novem-
ber 22, 1760. He lived on his grand-
father's homestead, there he was a farmer,
and married, May 12, 1736, Elizabeth CorJ
nell, born September 27, 171 1, died May
10, 1793, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth
(Hagner) Cornell, granddaughter of John
and Mary (Russell) Cornell, who came
from England in 1677, and settled at
Sands Point, where they were buried.
Caleb Cornell was born there in 1683, and
died there. He married, October 10, 1705,
Elizabeth Hagner, of Flushing, who died
in 1734. Comfort Sands, fourth son of
John and Elizabeth (Cornell) Sands, was
born February 26, 1748, was baptized at
St. Paul's Chapel, New York, in 1767, and
died at Hoboken, September 22, 1834. He
resided in New York City previous to
1809, when he removed to Newark, and
remained three years. Returning to
New York, he lived there until 1826,
when he removed to Hoboken, was buried
at St. Peter's Church, Westchester, New
York. In 1775 he was a member of the
committee of one hundred to manage
colonial affairs in opposition to the home
government ; was a member of the pro-
vincial congress in that year ; was auditor-
general of New York in 1776, and con-
tinuously from that year until 1783 on the
committee of public safety. He also filled
other important posts during the Revolu-
tionary War, and was president of the
New York Chamber of Commerce after
peace had come. He married, June 3,
1769, Sarah Dodge, born 1749, at Hunts
Point, died in New York, January 24,
1795, and was buried in the Middle Dutch
Church on Nassau street in that city. She
was descended from Tristram Dodge, one
of the original settlers of Block Island, in
1662, died in 1733. He was the first free-
man of Block Island, admitted in 1664.

His son, William Dodge, lived and died
on Block Island, and was the father of
Samuel Dodge, born there September 19,
1691, died about 1766, and was buried at
Sands Point, Long Island. His wife,
Elizabeth, was the mother of Wilkie
Dodge, born at Sands Point, where he
died in 1752, married Mary Hunt, born
1725, at Hunts Point, Westchester county,
New York, died in New York City, July
22, 1796, and was buried in the Middle
Dutch Church there. Comfort Sands
married (second) in New York, Decem-
ber 5, 1797, Cornelia, daughter of Abra-
ham Lott, born November 5, 1761, died
April 6, 1856, in New York. Joseph
Sands, second son of Comfort and Sarah
(Dodge) Sands, was born January 7, 1772,
in New York, and died there December
5, 1825, buried in St. Mark's Church. He
married in Paris, France, March 26, 1801,
Maria Therese Kampfel, born 1782, in
Vienna, Austria, died in New York, Au-
gust, 1846, buried in Greenwood Ceme-
tery, Long Island. She was the daughter
of Matthias Kampfel, a major in the Aus-
trian army, and his wife, Anna (Zach)
Kampfel, of a Flanders family, long situ-
ated in Lisle.

Ferdinand Sands, son of Joseph and
Maria Therese (Kampfel) Sands, was
born May 26, 1806, in New York, and
died there December 7, 1839, was buried
in St. Mark's Church. He graduated A.
B. at Columbia College in May, 1824. He
married, March 15, 1830, Susan Bard,
born February 7, 1812, at Hyde Park,
New York, died in New York City, Janu-
ary 28, 1838, buried in St. Mark's Church.
She was a descendant of an old New York
family. Her first known ancestor was
Benoit Bard, who fled from France in
1682 to escape religious persecution, and
died in London after 1734. His son, Colo-
nel Peter Bard, born 1679, in France,
came to America in 1706, settled in New
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that State, and was buried at St. Mary's
Church there. He was a member of the
Colonial Council in New Jersey in 1720,
commander of a regiment of foot, May 4,
1722, and was judge of the Superior Court
of the State at the time of his death. He
married in New Castle, Delaware, 1709,
Dinah Marmion, born 1693 in Leicester-
shire, England, died after 1760, in Burl-
ington, New Jersey, buried at St. Mary's
Church, daughter of Dr. Samuel Mar-
mion, born in Leicestershire, received the
degree of A. B. from Cambridge Univer-
sity, and came to America before 1700.
He died in Burlington, New Jersey,
March 20, 1734, buried at St. Mary's
Church. He married, July 28, 1692, at
Astley Abbots, Salop, Elizabeth Parker,
born 1670, in England, died in Burlington,
September 24, 1729, buried at St. Mary's
Church. Dr. John Bard, son of Colonel
Peter and Dinah (Marmion) Bard, was
born February 1, 1716, at Burlington, died
at Hyde Park, New York, April 1, 1799,
buried at St. James' Church there. He
married at Christ Church, Philadelphia,
1737, Susanne Valleau, born July 19, 1721,
in New York, died and was buried at St.
James' Church, Hyde Park, daughter of
Pierre Valleau, grandaughter of Faulkner
Valleau, great-granddaughter of Esaie
Valleau, born in France, 1638, came to
New York in 1685, died at New Rochelle,
New York, 1713. The son, Faulkner,
born 1662, died before 1712, had wife,
Jeanne, and they were the parents of
Pierre Valleau, died in New York before
1745. He married Magdalena Faucon-
nier, born 1685, in London, died in New
York after 1750. Dr. Samuel Bard, son
of Dr. John and Susanne (Valleau) Bard,
was born April 1, 1742, in Burlington, re-
ceived the degree of A. B. at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, LL. D. at Princeton
College, founded the New York Medical
School and the New York City Hospital,
died at Hyde Park, New York, May 24,

1821, buried there in St. James' Church.
He married at Christ Church, Philadel-
phia, May 14, 1770, his cousin, Mary Bard,
born June 18, 1746, died at Hyde Park,
May 23, 1821, buried there at St. James'
Church, daughter of Peter Bard, who was
a son of Colonel Peter and Dinah (Mar-
mion) Bard. Peter (2) Bard was born
July 29, 1712, at Burlington, was com-
missary-general of the Pennsylvania
forces, died at Mount Holly, January 30,
1761, buried at St. Andrew's Church
there. He married at Christ Church,
Philadelphia, September 28, 1738, Marie
de Normandie, born May 15, 1780, at
Bristol, Philadelphia, died at Mount
Holly, New Jersey. William Bard, son
of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Bard) Bard,
born April 4, 1778, in Philadelphia, gradu-
ated A. B. Columbia College, 1798, mem-
ber of the Society of the Cincinnati, died
October 17, 1853, on Staten Island, buried
in St. Mark's Church, New York. He
married in Trinity Church, New York,
October 7, 1802, Catherine Cruger, born
May 7, 1781, at St. Croix, West Indies,
died on Staten Island, October 14, 1868,
buried at St. Mark's Church, New York.
She was a descendant of John Cruger,
who came to America before 1700, was
mayor of New York, 1739, died there Au-
gust 13, 1744, buried in the Old Dutch
Church. He married, March 5, 1702,
Maria Cuyler, died September 14, 1724,
in New York, buried in the Dutch Church
there, daughter of Hendrick and Anna
Cuyler. Her father was captain of the
troop at Albany in 1689. Henry Cruger,
son of John and Maria (Cuyler) Cruger,
born November 25, 1707, in New York,
was member of the Colonial Assembly,
1745-59; of the Council, 1762-73; died at
Bristol, England, 1778, and buried at the
Cathedral there. He married, December 21,
1736, Elizabeth Harris, born June 7, 1716,
at Jamaica, West Indies. They were the
parents of Nicholas Cruger, born March

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5, 1743, in New York, a distinguished
patriot during the Revolution, died at St.
Croix, West Indies, in 1800, buried on
Peter's Rest Plantation. His wife, Anna
de Nully, born at St. Croix, West Indies,
died there November, 1784, buried at St.
Peter's Rest. She was descended from
Bertrand de Nully, Count de Nully, of de
Nully sur Marme, planter of Martinique,
father of Bertrand Pierre de Nully, a
planter of St. Croix, West Indies, where
he died in 1778. His wife, Catherine
(Heylager) de Nully, born at St. Croix,
died there October 12, 1799, was a daugh-
ter of General Pierre Heylager, born in
Denmark, chamberlain to Christian V.,
appointed governor-general of Danish
West Indies in 1733, died in St. Croix.
Catherine Cruger, daughter of Nicholas
and Anna (de Nully) Cruger, became the
wife of William Bard, as previously noted.
They were the parents of Susan Bard,
wife of Ferdinand Sands, as previously
noted.

Arthur Sandys was born in New York
City at the family home, corner of Broad-
way and Bleecker street, September 27,
1837, died at his home, 35 North Lincoln
avenue, Washington, Warren county,
New Jersey, July 21, 1914. He was the
son of Ferdinand Sands, who died when
his son was two years of age (see ante).

Arthur Sandys, so early orphaned, was
reared by his grandparents, William and
Catherine Bard, at their home, No. 2
College place, New York City. There
they resided until Arthur was fifteen
years of age, when they moved to a
beautiful home on Staten Island, New
York. He was largely educated under
private tutors, his principal instructor be-
ing Professor Joseph Karge, afterward
professor of languages at Princeton Col-
lege and often called the "ornament" of
Princeton. From private tutors he was
sent abroad to complete his education,
and he spent several years in study at

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Florence, Italy, and Berne, Switzerland.
In Florence he took special courses in
architecture and carving, arts in which he
excelled, particularly as a draughtsman.
After his return to the United States he
was in the employ of the United States
government, then contructing forts at the
entrance to the Mississippi river, and
when his work there was finished, con-
tinued in the government service at Phil-
adelphia, where he resided for some time.
He was also engaged as draughtsman and
superintendent by private parties, but
never devoted himself exclusively to busi-
ness. He traveled extensively at home
and abroad and gave a great deal of time
to reading, study and literary pursuits.
He resided in Philadelphia, Allentown
and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Trenton
New Jersey, and elsewhere, as places at-
tracted him, finally, in 1908, settling in
Washington, New Jersey, where he died.
He was a thorough gentleman, courteous,
genial and gentle in manner, very ap-
prochable, with all the graces of mind and
character of a student and scholar. He
was a member of the Episcopal church,
serving as vestryman and warden. While
books of biography and history were his
favorites in literature, he was widely read
and informed on all subjects coming with-
in the bounds of a liberal education, in-
cluding the languages. His favorite sport
was boating, of which he was inordi-
nately fond. Kindness and consideration
marked his intercourse with his fellow-
men, and he possessed many warm per-
sonal friends. When a young man he
tried to enlist as a private in the Union
army, but owing to a defect in hearing
was rejected. He then secured appoint-
ment as assistant paymaster, serving until
the war closed. In Washington, New
Jersey, he took a deep interest in public
affairs, aided materially in the founding
of the public library and made his pres-
ence felt for good in many ways.

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Mr. Sandys married (first) in 1868,
Miriam Moase, of Staten Island, New
York. He married (second) September
5, 191 1, Etta Medlyn, daughter of Wil-
liam and Eliza (Winn) Medlyn, of Mas-
sachusetts birth, but English parentage.
Mrs. Sandys survives her husband, a
resident of Washington, New Jersey.

(The de Normandie Line).

Through his mother, Susan (Bard)
Sands, wife of Ferdinand Sands, Arthur
Sandys traced descent from Andre de
Normandie of ancient and noble lineage,
son of a distinguished father, brother of
one whose proved abilities were valued
by princes ; and himself a diplomat chosen
and long employed by reason of his own
merit, a man of exalted character and
worth. This Andre de Normandie founded
the branch of the family in the United
States from which sprang Susan (Bard)
Sands, a descendant of Marie de Nor-
mandie, second child of Andre de Nor-
mandie, who married Peter Bard, son of
Colonel Peter Bard, of Burlington, New
Jersey.

The de Normandie family history is ex-
haustively treated in "Annals of de Nor-
mandie," a work collated, translated and
explained by Arthur Sandys and printed
at Cambridge by the Riverside Press in
1891. In that work descent is traced to
Laurent de Normandie, eldest son and
heir of Jean de Normandie and grandson
of Guillaume de Normandie.

Jean de Normandie lived and died either
near Noyon, France, on one of his fiefs or
in the city where it is known he held high
office. He belonged to the Catholic party
and John Calvin has made his personality
very distinct to us by the statement in
his dedication of the work "De Scandalis,"
that "Jean de Normandie is reported to
have died of grief on account of his son's
defection from the Catholic faith and
flight to Geneva." Jean de Normandie

married Jacqueline Moreau, an heiress,
or at least, a lady of a large landed prop-
erty, who bore him two sons and two
daughters. She died prior to 1540 leaving
three fiefs to her eldest son, Laurent.
Jean de Normandie died in the early part
of 1549 and records state that he was
buried with his ancestors in the chapel of
Notre Dame, founded by his grandfather.

Laurent de Normandie, eldest son and
heir of Jean and Jacqueline (Moreau) dc
Normandie, was born at or near Noyon in
Picardie about 1520, died in the prime of
life, August 14, 1569, one of the most in-
teresting of all those distinguished men
who found a refuge in Geneva during the
earlier years of the Reformation. A de-
scendant of the great feudal families of
Champagne and Picardie, a grandson of a
Seneschal of the latter province, he filled
the high office of royal lieutenant of his
native city, Noyon, and then surrendered
his honors and estates to meet obloquy
and condemnation to death for the sake of
religion.

In addition to the three fiefs that came
to him from his mother, he inherited the
title and Seigneurie of la Motte from his
father, but as his father died a few months
after the conversion of his son to the
Protestant faith and flight to Geneva, the
Seigneure of la Motte was probably con-
fiscated by the crown and as the attainer
issued against Laurent de Normandie was
never by pardon of the king swept from
the records of the parliament of Paris, the
title and estate of la Motte was not among
those restored to him by Henry IV.
through the good graces of the dowager
Queen Navarre. He never used the title
at Geneva although he was always recog
nized as "noble' and so called, as also
were his descendants. Laurent de Nor-
mandie made advanced studies in the law
and was received a doctor. He became
king's lieutenant and mayor of Noyon and
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Jeanne de'Albret, later Queen of Navarre
and mother of Henry IV., of France. He
married, September 3, 1540, Anne de la
Vaquerie, of a noble family merged into
the dukedom of St. Simon.

It is not known at what time his re-
ligious convictions became fixed, but at
least in 1548 his mind was settled, so
abandoning all chances of advancement
in his public employments he left his
home and country, and followed by his
wife who was suffering from an illness
that later ended her life, and also by his
children, he sought refuge in Geneva,
arriving in October, 1548. There he was
reunited with the family of Jean Calvm,
whom he had long known, and in May he
was admitted an inhabitant of Geneva.
The circumstances of the death of his
father, the death of his wife and the loss
of a beloved child all during the first
month of his arrival in Geneva called
forth a letter of condolence and sympathy
from Jean Calvin in the form of a dedica-
tion to Laurent de Normandie in his cele-
brated work "De Scandalis."

He purchased a house with court and
garden and lived very near some of the
pastors including John Calvin. He mar-
ried a second wife in 1550, Anna, daugh-
ter of Leon Colladon. Doctor of Civil
Law, belonging to a family from Berry
in France, but a short time in Geneva, and
which had always held honorable rank.
The marriage took place in the cathedral
of St. Pierre at the morning service, Sep-
tember 14, 1550, John Calvin officiating as
the minister. He was offered citizenship
but not until April 25, 1555, did he accept
and become a citizen of Geneva, the fee
having been reduced by the council "in
consideration of his handsome services."
He was admitted a Doctor of Laws, Octo-
ber 1, 1556, but there is no record of his
having practiced his profession. He be-
came a member of the Council of Two
Hundred, edited and published books

which he sent to be sold in France and
other parts. In 1557 he asked the privi-
lege of six years publication of the "Com-
mentaries of Calvin on the Evangelists"
also for a volume of the Epistles of St.
Paul and Canonicals. Answer was given
by the council that the privilege of three
years would be accorded "if agreeable to
Mr. Calvin."

By a decree of the parliament of Paris
dated September 7, 1552, Laurent de Nor-
mandie was condemned to be burnt alive
"as guilty of having fled the Kingdom,"
but as he was safely lodged in Geneva,
the sentence was carried out in effigy.
Later the protection of those in high
power reinstated him in royal favor and
in the possession of his confiscated
estates. In settling his affairs in France
after the restitution of his estates he
made several journeys back and forth.
His friend, John Calvin, the reformer,
made him executor of his will. Laurent
de Normandie died August 14, 1569, the
Geneva records stating "The body of
Monsieur de Normandie was brought in
dead of the plague."

Jean de Normandie, eldest son of Lau-
rent de Normandie and Demoiselle Anne de
la Vaquerie, was born in the city of Noyon,
France, in 1544 or 1545. He arrived with
his parents in Geneva near the end of
1548, and was there educated, becoming
like his father a doctor of civil law and
coming into the full rights of citizenship,
took an active interest in all public affairs
and rose rapidly to the highest offices the
republic could bestow. In 1575 he entered
the Council of Two Hundred, later the
Council of Sixty, and in 1589 was consti-
tuted the deputy from the government of
Geneva to congratulate Henry IV. in his
assumption of the crown of France. In
1602 the Duke of Savoy made that long
contemplated attack on Geneva known in
history as the Escalade. The attack was
made in the night, but the Genevese, ever

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alert and well prepared, rendered the at-
tempt abortive, and in 1603 Jean De Nor-
mandie, on the part of Geneva, signed the
treaty of Saint Julien by which Charles
Emmanuel of the house of Carnigan,
Duke of Savoy, surrendered all his claims
and ancient rights thus relieving Geneva
not only of continuous and vast expense,
but also from the tension which had kept
it always militant.

In 1575 Jean de Normandie married the
demoiselle, Marie de Trie, daughter of
Guillaume de Trie, Seigneur de Varennes,
and from his own birth his services to the
state, the reputation of his father and his
illustrious alliance, his position was dis-
tinguished in the highest degree. He died
at Geneva full of honors, April 13, 1617,
aged seventy-three years, leaving a son,
Joseph, who, as the eldest among other
children, became the head of the family.

Joseph de Normandie, the eldest son of
Jean and Marie (de Trie) Normandie,
was born in Geneva in 1576. He was
named after his godfather, the Duke de la
Tremouille, who as soon as Joseph was
old enough made him his military secre-
tary and took him abroad. He served in
that capacity until his twenty-seventh
year when his patron obtained for him
from Henry IV., of France, the important
post of Conseiller du Roi at Bourt en
Bresse, which office he held until 1610
when he returned to Geneva. He was a
member of the Council of Two Hundred
at Geneva, the next year was a member of
the Council of Twenty-five, was Secre-
tary of State from 1609 to 1617 and again
until 1620.

Politically and socially Joseph de Nor-
mandie was well placed in the aristocratic
republic of Geneva not only in the enjoy-
ment of the highest offices and honors of
the State, as was his father before him,
but also became of his alliances. He
married, in 1614, the demoiselle, Dorothe
de Villains, daughter of Francois de Vil-

lains, baron d'Aubonne of a cadet branch
of the ancient house of the Villains de
Gand in Flanders. The mother of Doro-
the was Antonia Lullin, of a family the
most ancient in Geneva, whose Seign-
euries and city properties occupied in
1300 are in part yet owned by its mem-
bers. Joseph de Normandie died Novem-
ber 14, 1625, his only surviving son,
Michel, succeeding him as head of the
family.

Michel de Normandie was born in Ge-
neva in 1619. He was highly educated
and on arriving at legal age followed the
example set by his ancestors and devoted
himself to public affairs, becoming one of
the most distinguished men among those
whose names are found in the long list of
Seigneurs de Geneve. He was in public
official life for fifty-five years ; entering
in early manhood on responsible and ex-
acting employments, he gave all his time,
attention and efforts to promoting the
interests of the State, and ended that life
full of knowledge, experience and honors.
He entered the Council of Two Hundred
in 1642, was auditor in 1649 ar>d 1650,
syndic every fourth year, 1667 to 1695,
inclusive ; member of the Council of
Twenty-five continuously from 1658 until
his death in 1697. ^n addition he em-
ployed himself in the examination of the
public registers and in improving the
methods of carrying on the business of
the several departments of the govern-
ment.

Michel de Normandie married (first)
April 19, 1646, the demoiselle. Anne Gre-
nus, daughter of the noble Francois Gre-
nus, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
by creation of the Emperor Ferdinand
III. His eldest son, Jacob de Normandie,
was one of the leading historical figures
of his day. His second son, Andre, for
reasons of state became an exile to
America and is the American ancestor
of Arthur Sandys through his grand-

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daughter, Marie de Normandie, wife of
Peter Bard, whose descendant, Susan
Bard, married Ferdinand Sands in 1830.

Andre de Normandie, second son of
Michel and Anne (Grenus) de Norman-
die, was born in Geneva in 1651, died in
1724, sixteen years after his arrival in
America, and was buried in the church-
yard of St. James' Church at Bristol,
Pennsylvania, where his tombstone is yet
to be seen. He passed his childhood and
youth under the eye of his cultivated and
honored father, and in his twenty-second
year followed his elder brother, Jacob,
into the Council of Two Hundred, enter-
ing upon that career to which he, like
nearly all the male members of his family,
seemed to have almost a prescriptive
right.

On the death of William III., of Eng-
land, he left by will to his relative, Fred-
erick I., King of Prussia, among other
principalities and domains, the duchy of
Neufchatel. The Prince of Conti, backed
by the powerful influence of the King of
France laid claim to the duchy on the
death of William III. as did Carnigan,
Sovereign Duke of Savoy, and several
other powerful families of France and
Germany. Frederick of Prussia deter-
mined to defend his claim, and wishing
to gain over the population of the duchy,
consisting largely of Huguenots, to this
end sent Andre de Normandie to Neuf-
chatel as his confidential agent to Wil-
liam III. Andre de Normandie continued
in the diplomatic service of King Fred-
erick, of Prussia, until at least August,

1706. His brother, Jacob, also was in the
diplomatic service of Frederick, a fact
which angered the Genevese, and after a
series of exciting events Jacob de Nor-
mandie was banished from Geneva in

1707. While there is no mention of An-
dre de Normandie in the story of 1707 he
must be associated with his brother in
the events of that year just as his emigra-

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tion to America must be attributed to his
inclusion with Jacob in the resentments
of the Genevese government. His long
service as confidential agent to the King
of Prussia in Neufchatel demanded that
he possess influence, address, tact and
ability and that he possessed these three
qualities and stood high in the opinion of
the King is well proven by an autograph
letter signed "Frederick" at Berlin, May
8, 1705.

After the banishment of his elder
brother, Jacob, September 13, 1707, An-
dre de Normandie went to Holland,
where his younger brother Jacques was
living. After some stay in Amsterdam,
he went to England, family tradition,
with some evidence to support it, stating
that in London he met William Penn, or
his son, who persuaded him to go to
Pennsylvania in America. He arrived in
Philadelphia in 1708, a widower mourn-
ing for a wife, Louise Clerc, lately de-
ceased in Neufchatel, but having with
him three children : Marguerite, aged
twenty-two years ; Jean Abram, a young
man of nearly twenty ; and Jean Antoine,
a lad of fourteen.

He evidently was possessed of ample
means, as he obtained from the Penn pro-
prietors a tract of land near Bristol on
the Delaware river in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, bought land within the
borough, established his sons, settled his
daughter in marriage, subscribed to estab-
lishing the church and parish of St.
James, and lived in the best society then
surrounding him. Like most other edu-
cated Calvinists of French birth who
came to America before the Revolution
he became a communicant of the Church
of England, and so brought his family
within its fold. He lived for sixteen
years after his arrival in America and
died in 1724, aged seventy-three.

Andre de Normandie married Louise
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(Feuillet) Clerc, of Geneva, who bore
him five children, two dying in infancy.

Abram de Normandie, eldest son of
Andre and Louise (Clerc) de Normandie,
was born in Geneva, in 1688, and was
baptized Jean Abram but discarded the
"Jean" in America and was known as
Abram de Normandie. He was educated
in Neufchatel during the years his father
was Resident Counsellor to the King of
Prussia, and arrived in Philadelphia with
his father and family early in 1708. He
had served as one of the younger secre-
taries of his father in Neufchatel and was
no doubt educated for a career in public
life at Geneva in keeping with the tra-
ditions of his father. He was engaged as
notary at Bristol, drew up official papers
and became interested in public affairs.
In 1719 he was elected sheriff of Bucks
county, was justice of the peace for many
years, in 1728 he became chief burgess of
Bristol, an office he held until 1744, in
1756 was elected a member of the Provin-
cial Assembly from Bucks county and
was yet a member at the time of his death
in 1757, at the age of sixty-nine.

Abram de Normandie married in "ye
Philadelphian church," July 29, 1715, Hen-
riette Elizabeth Gaudonette, the daughter
of Dr. Francois Gaudonette, a practicing
physician established in Bristol, Pennsyl-
vania. Dr. Gaudonette was of a family
which, on the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, fled into England, where Fran-
cois continued already well advanced
medical studies and obtained his degree
of M. I). He married, in 1688, a French
lady, Marie Proue, and removed to South-
ampton, England, and in the summer of
1705 came to America, settling in Bristol,
Pennsylvania. Both Abram de Norman-
die and his wife are buried in the church-
yard of St. James at Bristol, where their
tombstones are to be seen. They were
the parents of ten children : Francois,
born in 1716, died in infancy it is believed,

as there is no further record of him to be
found; Marie, born in Bristol in 1718,
married, September 28, 1738, in Christ
Church, Philadelphia, Peter Bard, son of
the Hon. Colonel Peter Bard of Her
Majesty's Regiment of Foot, member of
Council, later associate judge on the Su-
preme Court bench, living at Burlington,
New Jersey, constituted in 1703 the seat
of government for the western division of
New Jersey. From this marriage of
Marie de Normandie and Peter Bard
came Mary Bard, who married her cous-
in, Dr. Samuel Bard, LL. D., whose
granddaughter, Susan Bard, in 1830 mar-
ried Ferdinand Sands, and was the mother
of Arthur Sandys, the author of the "An-
nals of the de Normandie Family" from
which the foregoing genealogical history
has been compiled.

After their marriage Peter and Marie
Bard settled at Mount Holly, New Jersey,
where Peter and his father-in-law, Abram
de Normandie, bought an iron mine. He
expended a large amount of money on the
property when an order came from the Privy
Council of England, directing the govern-
or of New Jersey to close the mine. This
ruined Peter Bard and left him heavily in
debt. After a struggle to retrieve his for-
tunes, which lasted a number of years, the
government who well knew the cause of
his ruin gave him a commission as commis-
sary-general of the forces about to attack
the French in Canada. He took the oath
in 1756 and was ordered to Fort Augusta
where a strong force was posted to defend
the colonies against Indian attack. After
his military service he returned to Mount
Holly, where he died leaving two daugh-
ters. His widow, Marie, returned to Burl-
ington where later she married John Hun-
loke, a gentleman of a good and influential
Burlington family. This marriage was
neither fruitful nor of long duration, and
at her death her two daughters by her first
husband, Peter Bard, went to live with

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their uncle, Dr. John Bard, at Hyde Park
on the Hudson, Mary, the elder, becom-
ing the wife of Dr. Samuel Bard, LL. D.

William de Normandie, the third child,
born 1720, became an early merchant of
Charleston, South Carolina. He married
in Christ Church, Philadelphia, July 25,
1745, Hannah Anderson. John Abram de
Normandie, born 1721, became a physi-
cian and practiced in Bristol. He mar-
ried, July 3, 1745, Rebecca Bard, daughter
of Colonel Peter Bard and sister of Peter
Bard who married Marie de Normandie,
sister of John Abram. Dr. de Normandie
in 1779 went to Geneva and instituted
proceedings at law and in arbitration
against the de Normandie estate. He re-
turned in 1790 and died in 1803. Louise
de Normandie, born 1723, married Mr.
Van Court, of New York City. An-
drew de Normandie, born 1725, died
1726. Anthony de Normandie, the only
descendant of Andre de Normandie, the
emigrant, who has transmitted the name
of his family in the United States, was
born in Bristol in 1726. Harriet Eliza-
beth de Normandie, born in 1729, married
Mr. Walton, of New York City. Daniel
de Normandie. born 1731, served as en-
sign with the English army against the
French, and in 1756 was in the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital at Philadelphia, suffering
from a wound. He died in July, 1760.
Sarah de Normandie, tenth and youngest
child of Abram de Normandie, was born
in 1733, married a young chaplain of the
Revolution, Rev. Barton, and in 1791 was
left a childless widow, dying in 1826 at
the age of ninety-three years at the home
of her nephew, Dr. Samuel Bard, at Hyde
Park. New York.

There is much of historic interest in the
de Normandie family record necessarily
omitted, but enough is given to prove the
worth of their services to state and church
and the high attainments of each genera-
tion. With the children of Abram de Nor-
mandie the record closes.

RISK, William Henry,

Physician, Leader in Community Affairs.

From 1874 until 191 3 the borough of
Summit, New Jersey, was the seat of prac-
tice of a Dr. Risk, brothers and contem-
poraries from 1892 when Dr. James Boyd
Risk joined his brother, Dr. William H.
Risk, in Summit, until 1905, when the
latter was called to his reward. To the
memory of Dr. William H. Risk this
tribute of respect is dedicated. For thirty-
one years he was the good family physi-
cian to countless households and between
him and these households there existed
that bond of affection which exists only
between the family doctor and his pa-
tients. He was with them in birth and in
death, in joy and in sorrow, in weakness
and in strength, he was the guest of honor
at the wedding and a sincere mourner at
the bier. His professional service, his
business sagacity, his strong personality,
high sense of honor and true manliness,
left a deep impress upon Summit and its
people, perhaps greater than any other of
those who had gone before him.

One of his most marked characteristics
was a detestation of hypocrisy, falsehood,
chicanery or meanness. He was out-
spoken in his opinions and was often op-
posed, but whether criticised or praised,
he was always respected and was always
worthy of respect. Underneath an ex-
terior sometimes reserved and a brusque-
ness of manner, sometimes assumed to
conceal the depth of his emotions, he
carried the kindest of hearts, the tenderest
of sympathies. Adding to this his manli-
ness, sincerity and those attributes form-
ing character, he drew the hearts of men
to him and the better they knew him the
deeper their affection for him.

He had an abiding faith in Summit and
his interest was manifested constantly.
In his early life there he was always plan-
ning some improvement, finding time
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devote much time to public affairs, and
no single individual since Summit was in-
corporated ever accomplished so much to-
ward making it so desirable a suburban
community. He was one of the few men
who realized the importance of a pure
and ample water supply and possessed
the courage to advocate such a system for
Summit. He advanced a part of the
money to insure the beginning of the
work, withdrawing when a supply was
assured and his support not essential. In
like manner he courageously advocated a
sewerage system at a time when prac-
tically the entire community was opposed
to it. The results of both the water and
sewerage systems were alike tributes to
his good judgment and fearless public
spirit in supporting those movements he
believed beneficial. He possessed strong
qualities of leadership, believed in himself
and inspired others with his own courage
and enthusiasm, and thus became a won-
derful power for good in his community.
Dr. William Henry Risk, son of James
and Catherine (Stauffer) Risk, was born
at Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylva-
nia, February 15, 1842, died at his home
in Summit, Union county, New Jersey,
February 7, 1905. William H. Risk ob-
tained his early and preparatory educa-
tion in boarding schools, later entering
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania,
there completing his classical studies.
Deciding upon the profession of a healer,
he matriculated at the Medical School of
the University of Pennsylvania, whence
he was graduated M. D., class of 1866.
He had served a brief term of enlistment
during the Civil War, and after receiving
his degree was for several months recruit-
ing surgeon for the United States navy at
Philadelphia. The sameyears until i874were
spent in practice in Philadelphia, valuable
experience being gained in hospital work
as well as in his private practice. In 1874
he located at Summit, New Jersey, and

thenceforth his life history is that of Sum-
mit, until after thirty-one years of valu-
able association Dr. Risk beheld the
"King in His Beauty."

It was inevitable that a man of his char-
acteristics should become a power for
good in the community. Summit was
then little more than a village, but with
possibilities which inspired the public
spirit of Dr. Risk. He at once sprang into
prominence and as the village grew he
saw that there must be a strong hand to
guide if Summit was to take and retain its
position as a popular suburban town. He
did not aspire to prominence outside of
his profession, but certain things had to
be done, and a leader being necessary he
naturally fell into the position and once
he had demonstrated an ability to lead
the public unanimously accorded him the
privilege and there was no improvement
inaugurated during his active years in
Summit in which his influence was not
felt and his leadership seen.

Although so deeply interested in Sum-
mit's development, Dr. Risk was essen-
tially the physician and in no direction
was his influence stronger than in those
matters which concerned the public
health. That influence was seen in pro-
curing a pure and abundant water supply,
in the installation of a system of sewerage
and in the operation of the Board of
Health. Membership on that board was
the only public office he would ever ac-
cept, but as president of the board he
used the full power of the office to safe-
guard the public health. Although he
was ardent in his Republicanism, he was
strictly independent in local affairs, and
the public official, whether of like or op-
posite public faith, who was faithfully
endeavoring to discharge his duties could
always count upon the staunch friendship
and support of Dr. Risk, just as the official
recreant to his trust could be certain of
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He was one of the first to aid in the
establishment of the Fresh Air and Con-
valescent Home in Summit and served as
attending physician to that excellent in-
stitution from the time of its inaugura-
tion. He was a prominent member of the
New Jersey Medical Society, the Morris
County Medical Society, and took a very
deep interest in the Orange Inter-Medical
Society. His philanthropy extended to
all, and to the poor he was a constant and
generous friend. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Kent Place School for
Girls and to that institution gave un-
wearied effort, also displaying a deep in-
terest in the public schools and their
supervision.

He did more for the upbuilding of Sum-
mit than is shown in the preceding ac-
tivities, as the sections lying along Hobart
and Summit avenues testify. Both locali-
ties were simply large tracts of woodland
when their beauty and desirability as
home sites attracted his attention. He
purchased the tracts and with his genius
for improvement he developed them with
an energy and good judgment which in a
few years converted both into the choicest
of residential sections. He was a lover
of horses, always owned good ones and
was particularly fond of horseback riding.
He was a director of the Summit Trust
Company, was one of the organizers of
the Monday Night Club, and of the High-
land Club, was an attendant of Central
Presbyterian Church, and a member of
the Masonic order, in fact there was little
of a social or charitable nature in the
borough in which he was not interested
or that failed to enlist his cooperation.

Dr. Risk married, December 20, 1871,
Sophia, daughter of George Drake Wood-
ruff, of East Orange, New Jersey. She
died April 29, 1901, aged fifty-five years,
leaving an only child, Margaret Hender-
son Risk, married Benjamin Vroom
White, an architect of note, and has three

children: Benjamin Vroom (2), Margaret
Risk and James Boyd Risk White.

The following resolutions were adopted
by the Summit Board of Health in honor
of the memory of Dr. William H. Risk:

This board recognizes that in his death, it has
lost a kindly and courteous fellow member, and
a vigorous and efficient head. The city of Sum-
mit has met with an irreparable loss, deprived as
it is of an official who was always at his post,
who had a solicitous regard for the best interests
of the city, and who was equipped by nature and
education with such knowledge, skill and experi-
ence, disposition and temperament, as made him
an ideal head of the city's health department.
Ever on the alert, quick to diagnose the trouble,
and prompt and sure with the remedy, our late
president guarded well the public health of the
city entrusted to his case. Therefore be it re-
solved, the members of the Board of Health in
common with the people of Summit mourn the
loss of a beloved, upright fellow citizen, whose
interest in the City's welfare was always preemi-
nent; that they especially mourn the loss of one
who as President of this Board, endeared him-
self to every member thereof, and that individu-
ally they mourn the loss of one who was tc each
a dear, personal friend. Dr. Risk's long resi-
dent in Summit, his rugged, unflinching courage,
and his high professional gifts, especially adapted
him to the office of our President, which office
without reward he filled for many years. The
Board desires to put on record its appreciation
of him as a man, a citizen and a friend. With
grief we bow to the inevitable will of God and
tender deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.

RISK, James Boyd,

Physician, Public Official.

For twenty years Dr. J. Boyd Risk was
a resident of Summit, New Jersey, one of
the leading practicing physicians of that
borough, a prominent man of affairs and
a borough official honored by all who
knew him. To estimate the value of Dr.
Risk's life is impossible, as it is of the life
of any doctor devoted to his profession as
he was. It is a peculiar relation the phy-
sician of long standing maintains to his
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being but one of the services required of
him. So Dr. Risk was not alone the
healer to his people, but to him came the
young for advice on the questions they
deemed of so much importance. To such
he freely gave of friendly as well as pro-
fessional advice, and those boys and girls
who confided in him became his warm
friends and enthusiastic supporters. To
the old whose sands of life were running
low, he was the source of hope and en-
couragement ; to the young man he was
the business adviser or the helper in de-
termining a career, business or profes-
sional ; to the voters he was the man of
experience who would aid them in decid-
ing upon the momentous questions of
borough administration, while to every-
body he was the genial friend in whose
fidelity they might with safety confide.
Such a life lived conscientiously and de-
votedly cannot be valued, only the great
Hereafter shall reveal its harvest. Dr.
Risk was a son of James and Catherine
(Stauffer) Risk, his father born in Lon-
donderry, Ireland, but living in Pennsyl-
vania from childhood, his mother of Ger-
man descent, her family a prominent one
in Pennsylvania.

Dr. James Boyd Risk was born in
Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania,
October 26. 1858, died at his home in
Summit, Union county, New Jersey, May
30, 1913. His early life was passed in
Pennsylvania, where he acquired his pre-
paratory education in the public schools.
After the completion of such courses he
matriculated at Lafayette College, Eas-
ton, Pennsylvania, whence he was gradu-
ated in the classical course with the de-
gree of Master of Arts, class of 1877. He
then spent two years at the Medical
School, University of Pennsylvania, re-
ceiving his degree of M. D. with the class
of 1879. He supplemented his medical
preparation by an extended course of
lectures at a famous university in Vienna,

Austria, and by foreign hospital experi-
ence, then returned to the United States
thoroughly equipped to engage in profes-
sional work. He first located at Balti-
more, Maryland, where he opened a drug
store and there continued in the drug
business for some time.

This was not in accordance with his
plans for life work and he, as soon as
possible, effected an advantageous sale of
his business and located in Morristown,
New Jersey, where for several years he
was in successful medical practice. He
continued in Morristown for several years,
and although his practice was a large and
still increasing one he transferred his
offices to Summit in 1892, chiefly to be in
closer touch with his brother, who was
a practicing physician of that thriving
borough. Here Dr. Risk entered upon
the final period of his career and one most
important in its results to that commu-
nity. He soon acquired a loyal clientele
and until his death ranked with the fore-
most physicians of Summit. His practice
was general in its character and no man
of his day was more devoted or more
thoroughly able to meet its demands. He
was exceedingly broadminded and liberal
in his intercourse with other physicians,
and no matter to him what their school
he met and welcomed them as professional
brethren. In fact that was his entire atti-
tude toward life, consideration for the
rights of others and a willingness to con-
cede the utmost freedom of thought in all
matters relating to the individual, allow-
ing to others the right he demanded for
himself.

He was a member of the medical so-
cieties of Morris and Essex counties, had
a wide acquaintance among medical men
and ever held their highest esteem. His
personality was charming and so thor-
oughly did he identify himself with his
community, its ambitions, hopes and
aims, that he was generally beloved. In

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fact none knew him but to love him. He
was one of the organizers of Kent Place
School for Girls and served on the board
of directors; he gave much of his time
to the advancement of this project which
became a decided success. He was also
interested in the opening up of new sec-
tions of the borough and helped to build
up some of the choice parts of Summit.

Dr. Risk was not a recluse nor did he
consider that his profession shut him out
of participation in the business and civic
activities of his community. He was vice-
president of the Summit Trust Company
and a director of the First National Bank,
nor was he a figurehead in either. He
served the borough as councilman and for
two years was mayor of Summit, accept-
ing that office as a responsibility he dare
not decline when convinced his accept-
ance would result in benefit to the com-
munity. He filled the office most credit-
ably to himself and to the satisfaction of
the people who would gladly have re-
tained him in the office. He belonged to
many of the social organizations of the
borough, the Country Club, the Baltrus-
rol Golf Club, the Highland Club ; was a
member of the Masonic order and an
attendant of the Presbyterian church.
He could devote but little time to the
enjoyment of these organizations, his life
being so full of absolute duty, but he
enjoyed such of their privileges as were
possible and was always an honored and
welcomed visitor, whenever he could
command a brief period, "off duty." He
was most charitable and no appeal was
ever made to him in vain, particularly
calls upon his professional skill. Thus
was his life passed, "Spending and being
Spent." His death came to the people of
Summit as a distinct personal loss and
few of the town were absent when the
time came to pay the last token of respect
to his memory.

Dr. Risk's home was at the corner of

Springfield and Morris avenues, Summit,
and there his widow continues her resi-
dence with her two daughters, Mary Hen-
derson and Catherine (Boyd) Risk. Dr.
and Mrs. Risk were married April 16,
1902, she formerly Miss Mary Browning
Butler. She is the daughter of Noble C.
and Annie (Browning) Butler, natives of
Indiana and Kentucky, her father a
lawyer of Indianapolis, now clerk of the
United States Courts of that city.

JOHNSTON, Henry,

Former Mayor of Washington.

With the passing of Henry Johnston
there closed the life history of a remark-
able man. The keynote of his life was in-
tegrity and to that he added an intensity
of purpose, energy, enthusiasm, and deep
conviction. Temperamentally of nervous
disposition, he took decided position on
all public questions which arose, and after
espousing a cause he threw himself into
its advocacy with all the remarkable
energy he possessed. He never occupied
middle ground, if a cause was just and
right it should be supported, if it was
wrong it should be condemned and wiped
out. That was the principle upon which
he conducted his administration of the
mayor's office, and wrongdoers found
their path a thorny one as long as he
remained in office. So in his advocacy of
the cause of prohibition. He belived the
legalizing of the liquor traffic through
license, high or low, was wrong, and he
fought for constitutional prohibition with
all his powers. He personally promoted
practically all the local campaigns and his
wonderful energy was put to its hardest
test in his support of local, county, state
and national prohibition, for he stopped
at nothing less than the complete out-
lawry of the liquor traffic.

Probably Mr. Johnston was more wide-
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ing counties for his unceasing labor as an
agent of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. He gave himself to
the work of the Society at a personal
sacrifice in money and time, but from the
wonderful aggressiveness he displayed in
seeking out and punishing violators of the
law in Warren and adjoining counties it
might have been supposed that it was a
matter of personal gain instead of per-
sonal sacrifice and loss. There was hardly
a week but that he had a case pending
somewhere and it was a matter of public
knowledge that he punished violators of
the law wherever he found them, friends
and foes faring alike at his hands.

He was a descendant of Judge Samuel
Johnston, who came to New Jersey from
Scotland, one of the strong men of his
day. The line of descent from Judge
Samuel Johnston was through his son,
Samuel (2) Johnston, his son, Samuel (3)
Johnston, his son, Joseph Johnston, his
son, Philip Johnston, his son, Joseph
Johnston, the well-known hardware
dealer of Washington, New Jersey, his son,
Henry Johnston, to whose memory this
sketch is dedicated.

Henry Johnston, son of Joseph and
Lydia (Hope) Johnston, was born at As-
bury, Warren county, New Jersey, March
27, 1856, died at his home on East Wash-
ington avenue, Washington, New Jersey.
August 30, 1915. Almost his entire life
had been passed in Washington where his
father was a leading merchant and
founder of the hardware business later
conducted as Joseph Johnston's Sons.
After completing his school years Henry
Johnston entered the Johnston hardware
store, later became a member of the firm
of Joseph Johnston's Sons and for about
fifteen years was engaged in the hard-
ware business in Washington. He then
severed his connection with the firm and
became district agent for Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and for

a time had an office in the St. Paul Build-
ing in New York City. He became one of
the company's most successful district
agents, his territory covering parts of
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York, and for a time necessitated the
maintainence of an office in Easton,
Pennsylvania. He continued the active,
energetic, successful head of his district
until a fall on an icy pavement in the
winter of 1914 which resulted in so severe
an injury that it forever ended his busi-
ness activity.

Mr. Johnston from youth was a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church, joining at
the age of sixteen years and ever order-
ing his life from that time forward accord-
ing to the teachings of the Master he
served. His activity in public affairs be-
gan at almost as early an age, and con-
tinued all his active years. In 1882 he
was elected a member of Washington's
Common Council, and in 1890 was chosen
mayor, running on a no-license ticket. In
1891 he was reelected and during both
terms he strove with all his might for the
moral betterment of the borough. Poli-
tically he was an ardent Prohibitionist
and the leader of his party in Warren
county, also was potent in state and na-
tional councils of the party. He was
chairman of the Warren County Pro-
hibition Committee, and in 1892 was the
nominee of the party for Congress.

He was vice-president of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
was a director of the society and its local
agent. His work for dumb animals was
one which will be long remembered and
in his death they lost one of their best
friends. So a useful life was passed,
spending and being spent. The record of
that life is a noble one, and as shown was
filled with earnest effort to help his fel-
low-man. In private life he was honor-
able and upright, very generous and open-
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good cause. He was a tower of strength
to any cause he advocated, and while
his intense nature carried him to extreme
lengths in that advocacy, arousing strong
opposition, even his opponents honored
him for his open manner of fighting evil
and respected his motives. Such a char-
acter as his naturally made enemies,
but also attracted the friendship of all
lovers of the right and he numbered a
host of warm friends and loyal sup-
porters. He was a member of the Junior
Order of American Mechanics, the Pa-
triotic Order Sons of America, and of
that order which admits both sexes, The
Daughters of Liberty.

Mr. Johnston married, December II,
1878, Emma E. Dilts, who survives him,
her home the residence on East Washing-
ton avenue erected by Mr. Johnston in
191 1. Mrs. Johnston is a daughter of
Elijah N. and Margaret (Hoffman) Dilts,
of old Morris and Warren county family.
She had no children, but has an adopted
son, Joseph D. Johnston, a practicing den-
tist of Newark, New Jersey.

(The Dilts Line).

Emma E. Johnston, wife of Henry
Johnston, is a descendant of Daniel Dilts,
who came from Germany during the early
part of the eighteenth century and settled
in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where
he resided until his death. He married
and left male issue including a son, Daniel
(2) Dilts, born in Hunterdon county in
1741, and there resided a great many
years. This Daniel Dilts was very active
in efforts to raise Hunterdon's quota of
troops for the Revolutionary army, serv-
ing as recruiting officer and in all possible
ways aiding the cause of independence.
He was also a civil officer of the town,
serving as constable. In 1802 he moved
to Washington township, Morris county.
New Jersey, and there bought a farm of
one hundred and seventeen acres upon

which he lived until his death in 1827.
He married Rebecca Marlatt, born in
1750, who survived him, living to the ad-
vanced age of eighty-three years. Daniel
and Rebecca Dilts were among the earli-
est members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in their locality. At that early
day regular places of worship were few
and far between, the few settlers gather-
ing for worship at the home of someone
centrally located, and there listened to
the words of the missionary preacher who
found his way on horseback from place to
place on his long circuit. The Dilts home
was one of the houses where the itinerant
preacher was always made welcome and
hospitably entertained, that home also
thrown open to all who would come to
the preaching services which were held
there. Daniel and Rebecca Dilts were
the parents of: Peter, John, George,
Joseph, Daniel, Sarah, Rachel, and Re-
becca Dilts.

Daniel (3) Dilts was born in Hunter-
don county, New Jersey, January 22,
1789, died July 17, 1867. He purchased
the homestead in Morris county of his
father in 1812, retaining ownership as
long as he lived. He was a man of high
character, prudent in the management of
his affiairs, very benevolent and public-
spirited, aiding in all the movements tend-
ing to benefit his community. He led a
very quiet, modest life, never seeking
office or political preferment, but upright
and honorable, and pursued the even ten-
or of his way. He accumulated a compe-
tence by industry and judicious manage-
ment, leaving to his children not only the
record of a well-spent life, but a fair por-
tion of this world's goods. Like his hon-
ored parents, he was a devout Christian
and a strong pillar of the Methodist church.
He married Elizabeth Neighbor, born in
1795, died June 29, 1831, daughter of John
Neighbor, of Morris county, New Jersey.
Children : Nathan, who resided in Wash-

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ington, New Jersey; Anna, died unmar-
ried ; Elijah N., of further mention ; Re-
becca, married Peter S. Bergen, of Somer-
set county, New Jersey ; Isaiah, who was a
prominent lawyer of the Somerset county
bar, residing at Somerville, New Jersey ;
Abner, who lived on the old homestead at
German Valley, Morris county, where his
father also lived and died; George S., a
practicing physician at Raritan, New Jer-
sey, for several years, served four years
in the Union army (1861-65) as surgeon
with the rank of major, later located in
Baltimore, Maryland, where he died.

Elijah N. Dilts, son of Daniel (3) and
Elizabeth (Neighbor) Dilts, was born at
the homestead, German Valley, Morris
county, New Jersey, February 10, 1818,
died June 14, 1901. He was educated in
the district school, and until he was
twenty-eight years of age remained at the
homestead. After his marriage he moved
to Washington township, Warren county,
New Jersey, and settled on a farm owned
by his father. He began his residence
there April 3, 1846, and in 1848 purchased
the farm of his father, and there resided
until his death. This farm of one hun-
dred and forty acres lay so near the town
of Washington that it later became a part
of the borough of Washington when it
was so incorporated. Mr. Dilts also be-
came the owner of the homestead farm
in Morris county settled by his grand-
father, which he purchased from the heirs
of his father's estate. He was a man of
strong convictions with force of character
and resolution to carry to completion
whatever he undertook and believed to be
right. He devoted his life almost exclu-
sively to agriculture, never accepting poli-
tical office although often importuned.
Like his honored father he was a Whig
in politics, but after the formation of the
Republican party he ever acted with that
organization. Both he and his wife were
devoted Methodists joining that church in

185 1, and contributing liberally of their
substance and time.

Mr. Dilts married, December 11, 1845,
Margaret Hoffman, born April 13, 1819,
and died November 20, 1877, daughter of
Henry I. Hoffman, of Morris county, New
Jersey. Children : Henry C. ; Annie, died
at the age of twelve years; Eli, died in
infancy ; George W., residing in Wash-
ington, New Jersey ; Emma E., widow of
Henry Johnston, of Washington, New
Jersey ; Ella ; William G. ; Ulysses G.

CONGAR, Bruen Hayes,

Representative Citizen.

Many years ago Mr. Congar trod the
streets of Newark, a quiet man whose life
was spent in the management of his own
private estate and within the sacred pre-
cincts of his home. He came of the oldest
and most prominent Newark families,
each of his names, Bruen, Hayes, and
Congar, being family names well-known
and highly honored. Few will now recall
him except those of his own family who
remain, or perhaps an old member of the
First Presbyterian Church, who will re-
member his regular attendance and deep
interest in that church and its work. His
father, Samuel Congar, was a lieutenant
in the Revolutionary War, serving in a
Newark company of New Jersey troops.
His mother, Hannah (Hayes) Congar,
was of a leading Newark family, daugh-
ter of Major Samuel Hayes, who was ac-
tive and vigilant during the trying times
of the Revolutionary War.

Bruen Hayes Congar was born at the
Broad street residence of his parents in
Newark, New Jersey. December 10. 1796,
died in his native city, March 2, 1868, in
the seventy-second year of his age. He
attended school in the old White school
house which stood for many years at the
junction of Broad (now Clinton avenue)
and Washington streets in the lower part

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of the town. He was all his life a student
and a reader, gaining from literature and
observation a wide store of useful knowl-
edge. In youth he learned the silver
plater's trade which he followed for some
years, engaging later in other pursuits,
but was obliged by ill health to retire
from active business for several years.
He was a man of quiet, retiring tastes
and disposition, sought not political pre-
ferment, although he held several local
offices. He was an ardent Whig and a
warm admirer of Henry Clay, who was
his favorite public character. After the
formation of the Republican party he
gave that organziation his support, was
a strong union man and aided the cause
all he could during the Civil War. In
his younger years he was deeply inter-
ested in the militia organiations of New-
ark and the State, enlisted as a private,
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant
and later was elected captain. He be-
came a member of the First Presbyterian
Church early in life, and was very careful
in his observance of his church duties.
He was an earnest Christian and lived his
religion every day. He was a good man
and left behind him an untarnished name.
Mr. Congar married, March 24, 1822,
Eliza Tichenor, born February 6, 1799,
died November 18, 1882, daughter of
James and Abigail (Hedden) Tichenor,
both of old and highly respected Newark
families. She bore him two daughters :
Phoebe Ann Pierson, died in 1836, aged
seven years, and Anna Elizabeth, who is
the last survivor of her family, and to the
memory of her honored father and gentle
mother brings this tribute of love and re-
spect from across the years that have
separated them.

MUIR, Edward Alexander,

Merchant, Moral TTplifter.

In the death of Edward Alexander
Muir, which occurred November 1, 1912,

Newton and New Jersey lost a most ex-
emplary citizen, one of the greatest pro-
moters of moral ethics and of strong busi-
ness policies in the State. Mr. Muir was
born May 3, 1849, m Parsonstown, Kings
county, Ireland, a son of Alexander and
Mary Faith (Stothard) Muir, the former
of Scotch and the latter of English line-
age. Alexander Muir was a merchant in
Parsonstown, an exemplary citizen, and
reared his son to move in the way he
should go.

Edward A. Muir was educated in a pri-
vate school in his native land, and was a
studious youth, active in both sport and
study, and ambitious to advance himself
in life. Before the completion of his
twentieth year he started for America,
passing his birthday anniversary on the
ocean enroute. He at once entered busi-
ness life in New York City and became
one of the responsible heads in the estab-
lishment of Alexander Lyle, a dry goods
dealer of New York City, where he con-
tinued several years. He was later with
Arnold, Constable & Company, continu-
ing some ten years in this association.
He had had some experience in mercan-
tile life in his uncle's establishment, in
youth, then in Dublin in a like capacity,
and made most excellent use of his oppor-
tunities in this country, so that his pro-
motion was rapid and steady. In 1888
he went to Morristown, New Jersey,
where he opened and took charge of a
store for his brother-in-law, Charles Dur-
gan, and conducted it successfully for
two years. Following this he established
himself in business at Newton, New Jer-
sey, where he opened a department store,
which was a success from the beginning,
and is still in operation, under the control
of his widow. It is the largest establish-
ment of the kind in the section, and is
modern in equipment and method, being
easily the leading mercantile establish-
ment of the county. While Mr. Muir was
an active and busy merchant, he always

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had time for the promotion of any under-
taking calculated to enhance the pros-
perity and moral condition of the commu-
nity in which he lived. He was a remark-
ably fine mathematician, a good calcula-
tor, and his success in business was due
to his own intelligence and industrious
effort. He arrived in America without
capital, but diligence and close applica-
tion and a keen sense of adaptability
made him a master in his chosen field.
Mr. Muir was a man of modest and retir-
ing nature, deeply religious, and devoted
to his church and its auxiliary forces.
While in no sense a politician, he was a
firm advocate and supporter of his princi-
ples in either religion or public life,
unselfish, generous and philanthropic.
Strictly honest himself, no deviation from
upright standards was permitted in the
conduct of his business. For many years
he was a member of the Baptist church of
Newton, a most devoted Christian, and
filled the office of deacon at the time of
his death. He was long superintendent of
the Sunday school, and active in every-
thing undertaken to promote the cause of
Christianity. The only other associations
with which he affiliated were the Royal
Arcanum and the Newton Board of
Trade. His example will long live as an
inspiration to others.

Mr. Muir was married, August 18, 1885,
in East Orange, New Jersey, to A. Louise
Condit, daughter of Cyrus Parkhurst and
Sarah Jane (Champlin) Condit. They
were the parents of three sons: Alex-
ander Wyckliff, Harold Edward, and
Cyrus Henry. These sons have been well
reared and will ever honor the memory of
their noble father.

HINCHLIFFE, William Fitzgerald,

Public-Spirited Citizen.

In the death of William Fitzgerald
Hinchliffe, which occurred in Paterson,

New Jersey, March 21, 1913, the city of
Paterson lost a representative citizen, a
man of strong mentality who won suc-
cess in his business undertaking by his
ability, fidelity and perseverance, who in
social life was courteous and kindly, ever
mindful of his duties as a citizen.

Mr. Hinchliffe was born in Paterson,
New Jersey, January 4, 1854, son of John
and Julia Hinchliffe, of Paterson, the for-
mer named a native of Yorkshire, Eng-
land, and the latter named a native of
Ireland. He obtained an excellent edu-
cation by attendance at the schools of his
native city, after which he became a stu-
dent in the Quimby Institute in Paterson,
New Jersey, and was later schooled by
practical experience at the John F. Betz
Brewery in Philadelphia, where he mas-
tered all the branches of the business and
became a thoroughly practical and expert
brewer. He then became associated with
his father in the brewery conducted by
him in Paterson, holding the position of
brewer for thirty-five years, taking special
part in the brewing of ales and porter,
and thus materially assisting in bringing
the product of the brewery up to the very
highest standard. When the business
was incorporated, William Fitzgerald and
his brothers, John and James, were made
officers in the firm, the father being presi-
dent and William Fitzgerald vice-presi-
dent, the latter continuing active in the
management of the business up to the
time of his decease. The elements which
go to make up an upright manhood were
his. Energetic and trustworthy in busi-
ness, genial and kindly in his intercourse
with his fellowmen, a champion of all that
tended to promote the material, social and
moral welfare of the community, his life
record is well worthy of emulation and it
won for him the good will and regard of
all with whom he was brought in con-
tact, whether in business or social inter-
course. He was a man of sterling worth,

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quiet and unassuming, staunch and true
in his friendship, and devoted to his
family, whose needs and comforts were
his first consideration. He was regular in
his attendance at the services of St.
George's Roman Catholic Church, held
membership in the Young Men's Literary
Club and in an association devoted to
athletics, he being particularly interested
in bowling and like sports. He was a
member of the Knights of Columbus, and
the Congress Club of Paterson.

Mr. Hinchliffe married (first) Joseph-
ine Van Noort, a sister of Frank J. Van
Noort, sheriff of Passaic county, New
Jersey, and they were the parents of
six children : Josephine, who became the
wife of Dr. Charles O'Conners, of Brook-
lyn, New York; Mary, who became the
wife of Paul Belden, of Canton, Ohio ;
Catherine, who became the wife of Joseph
Gschwend, of Columbus, Ohio ; Joseph ;
Leo; Claudine. Mr. Hinchliffe married
(second) Loretta Gorman, of Bingham-
ton, New York, and they were the parents
of seven children : Edward, William Fitz-
gerald, Jr., Richard, John, Arthur, Gerald,
Elizabeth, a posthumous child.

Mr. Hinchliffe was public-spirited in an
eminent degree, at all times giving his
support to whatever was calculated to
promote the general welfare, and in all
the relations of life, whether as a business
man or private citizen, he was always
found faithful and true, and in his life
work no shadow or suspicion of evil doing
darkened his honored pathway.

CRAWFORD, William Henry,

Exemplary Citizen.

Sixty-five years was the span of life
allotted to William H. Crawford, years
passed in honor amid most pleasant sur-
roundings, his home the famous Bowne
manor house at Crawford's Corner, in

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Holmdel township, Monmouth county,
New Jersey, the eastern part of which
was built by Captain John Bowne, some
time prior to 1684, the western part by
his son, Obadiah Bowne, in 1701. His
life was passed in the management of his
large estate and in promoting the general
welfare of his community. He was a man
of quiet tastes and high character, held
in highest esteem.

He was a descendant of John Crawford,
of Ayrshire, Scotland, who came to Amer-
ica in 1672; William Bowne, of Salem,
Massachusetts, in 1637; and of William
Scott, who, with his wife, Abigail Tilton
Warner, moved from Long Island to
Monmouth county in 1682 or 1683.

The surname Crawford was originally
derived from the barony of Crawford, in
Lanarkshire, Scotland, long held by feu-
dal lords who eventually took their title
from it. The first person of record to
bear the name was Johannes de Craw-
ford, who is of frequent mention in the
registry of Kelso about 1140, from whom
has been traced a long line of descendants
in England, Ireland and Scotland. In
1296, during the reign of Alexander II.,
Sir Reginald de Craufurd was appointed
heritable sheriff of Ayrshire, and the
name was closely associated with Scot-
tish history down to Alexander, son of
Sir Malcolm and Margaret (Cunning-
ham.) Crawford, who was a sea captain
and owner of the ship he commanded.
About the year 1612 he settled in Ireland,
where descendants became numerous.

Crawford Arms — Argent, a fess ermine.
In chief two spears saltire, sable. Crest
— A stag's head surmounted by a triple
cross. Motto — Tutem te robore reddem.

(I) John Crawford, the first of the fam-
ily in this country, came from Ayrshire,
Scotland, about 1672, first making settle-
ment in Massachusetts, then lived on
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town, Monmouth county, New Jersey, as
early as 1678. He is first of record in
New Jersey in a deed from Richard Gib-
bons and wife, dated December 11, 1678,
conveying to him a house and lot in Mid-
dletown, assigned to the grantor in the
first division of the land in 1667, under
the Nichols Patent. The original deed
was in the possession of descendants of
John Crawford for 227 years, then (in
1895) was presented to the Monmouth
County Historical Society (Monmouth
County Deeds A, see fac-simile in "His-
torical and Biographical Atlas of New Jer-
sey Coast," page 69). Between 1691 and
1694 a number of men from Monmouth
county and Long Island founded a town
called Portsmouth, on Delaware Bay, in
the lower township of Cape May county,
about three miles north of Cape May
Point, and the earliest deed for land at
Portsmouth was made April 1, 1699, to
John Crawford, for 300 acres. 1678, De-
cember 11 : He bought a house and lot in
Middletown, New Jersey, from Richard
Gibbons and wife. 1678: He was licensed
to keep an ordinary or public victualling
house at Middletown. 1679, March 15:
John Crawford made a mortgage to Rob-
ert Hamilton. 1680, November 25 : He
had 306 acres of a proprietary grant sur-
veyed for him at Middletown. 1682, April
10: Richard Hartshorne, attorney for
Thomas Snowsell, sold forty acres in
Middletown to John Crawford. 1682, July
11: John Crawford bought land on the
south side of the highway in Middletown,
as it runs east and west from Samuel
Moor, of Woodbridge, attorney for Mr.
Anthony Checkely, of Boston, who re-
ceived the same by process of law by a
marshal's bill of sale of lands of Thomas
Snowsell, July 10, 1682. 1684-5 : John C.
sold to Richard Hartshorne one hundred
acres of land on the south side of said
town (Middletown) adjoining the home

lots of Richard Stout, Richard Gibbons
and John Smith. 1685, September 19: He
sold 130 acres in Middletown to Jeremiah
Bennet. March 25, 1687, he had a tract of
280 acres at Waykake, conveyed to him
by patent from the proprietors of East
Jersey. 1687, December 3: John Craw-
ford, Gentleman, of Middletown, received
a grant of land from the proprietors,
bounded by Richard Gibbons and John
Wilson, containing 200 acres, lying in
Nutswamp, occupied by his descendants
till recently. 1691, August 3 : John Craw-
ford, of Middletown, conveyed 280 acres
to his son, John Crawford, Jr., of the same
place, lying at Waykake, Monmouth
county. New Jersey. 1692, April 30: John
Crawford, of Middletown, and his wife
Elizabeth, sold a sixteen acre house lot in
Middletown to Major Anthony Brock-
hole, of New York City. 1693, August
18: John Crawford, of Middletown, sold
to Richard Hartshorne the sixteen acre
homelot bought of Richard Gibbons in
1678. 1694: John Crawford died, and
was buried upon his farm in Nutswamp,
Middletown. His wife Elizabeth died
about the same time. They had at least
two sons, George and John.

(II) John (2) Crawford, son of John (1)
and Elizabeth Crawford, remained in
Monmouth county, where his father con-
veyed land to him by deed dated August
3, 1691, but not signed and delivered until
March 9, 1693 (Trenton Deeds F, 739;
Monmouth Deeds A, 36). His father also
gave him the Nutswamp tract which has
been the Crawford homestead for many
generations. He was a grand juror of
Monmouth county in 1693. Not later than
1698 he married Abigail, surname un-
known, who bore him at least one son,
George Crawford. 1698: John Crawford,
Jr., and wife Abigail, of Middletown, sold
to Elisha Lawrence, of the same place,
280 acres, which he received from his

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father, August 3, 1691. 1704, November
25: Administration was granted on the
estate of John Crawford, Jr., of Middle-
town.

(Ill) George Crawford, who so far as
known was the only son of John (2) and
Abigail Crawford, lived on the old Craw-
ford homestead at Nutswamp, in Middle-
town township, first conveyed to his grand-
father, John Crawford, in 1687, where he
died in 1745. His will, dated March 15,
1745, was proved at Perth Amboy, May
10, 1745, and is recorded at Trenton (D.
279). February 28, 1723, George Craw-
ford, of Middletown, conveyed to Nicho-
las Stillwell, of same place, weaver, land
in Middletown, which he had received
through his grandfather, John Crawford,
who took title to it in 1687. George
Crawford married, about 1726, Esther
Scott, of Shrewsbury, born May 13, 1701,
daughter of John Scott, whose will was
made and proved 1736, recorded at Tren-
ton, volume C.

The Scott family of Shrewsbury, New
Jersey, is descended from William Scott,
the first of the family to settle in Shrews-
bury, and his wife, Abigail Tilton War-
ner. He was a member of the Society of
Friends. John, son of William and Abi-
gail T. (Warner) Scott, born January 9,
1680, at Gravesend, Long Island, married
Mary Bills, about the year 1700, and re-
sided on the homestead inherited from
his father, near Newman's Springs, in
Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county.
Mary was a daughter of Thomas Bills,
and his second wife, Johanna Twining,
who was a sister of his first wife, Anna
Twining. Thomas Bills lived at Eastham
and Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Burling-
ton, New Jersey ; Woodbridge, in the
same State, finally settling at Shrews-
bury. John and Mary (Bills) Scott were
the parents of eleven children, the eldest,
Esther, born May 13, 1701, becoming the
wife of George Crawford, and the mother

of his seven children: George; Richard;
William, mentioned below ; Job ; Joshua ;
Lydia ; and Elizabeth, born in 1745, after
her father's death.

(IV) William Crawford, third son of
George and Esther (Scott) Crawford,
married (license dated December 27,
1756) Catherine Bowne, daughter of Cap-
tain John (3) and Anny (Lippitt) Bowne,
and granddaughter of Obadiah Bowne,
son of Captain John (1) Bowne, eldest
son of William Bowne, the founder of the
family in America. Children : Esther,
born February 3, 1761, married Robert
White ; William, mentioned below ; John
Bowne, November 27, 1767, married Caro-
line Field; Mary, married George Smith.

(V) William (2) Crawford, son of Wil-
liam (1) and Catherine (Bowne) Crawford,
was born October 9, 1763, and died De-
cember 14, 1837. He was one of the
wealthy men of his time, inheriting a
goodly share of his father's estate, which
had been greatly increased through the
lands his wife, Catherine Bowne, brought
to him. He married Rebecca Patterson,
born October 9, 1768, daughter of John
Patterson, of Middletown township.
Children : John Bowne, married Cath-
erine Crawford; William, died young;
William Henry, mentioned below; James
Patterson, married Margaretta Bowne ;
Anne Bowne, married Hendrick Con-
over.

(VI) William Henry Crawford, third son
of William (2) and Rebecca (Patterson)
Crawford, was born August 18, 1809, near
what is now the town of Holmdel, Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, and died De-
cember 21, 1874, at his home on that part
of the Bowne homestead at Crawford's
Corner, in Holmdel township, on which
stood the large dwelling house erected by
Captain John Bowne (1), and his son,
Obadiah Bowne. His brother, John
Bowne Crawford, inherited the Crawford
homestead at Nutswamp and there re-

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sided, and to William H. came the Bovvne
acres largely. These constituted a goodly
estate, and in their cultivation and care
he found his life work. He received a
good education at Middletown Academy,
and all his life was a friend of progress
and supporter of every forward move-
ment in his community. He was a mem-
ber and generous supporter of the Baptist
church, a Democrat in politics, and one of
HolmdePs most highly esteemed citizens.
His years, sixty-five, were well spent, and
he left to posterity a precious memory.

He married, January 8, 1834, Leah,
daughter of Cornelius R. and Mary
(Stoutenborough) Conover (see Conover
VII), who bore him children: Holmes
Conover (deceased), married Evelyn Pe-
terson; William Henry (deceased), mar-
ried Phebe A. Duryea ; John Bowne (de-
ceased), married Henrietta Schenck; Al-
bro Benton (deceased) ; Charles Voor-
hees, mentioned below ; Mary Jane Leslie,
died September 6, 1904; Jamesanna Law-
rence, now residing in Holmdel ; Sarah
Elizabeth (deceased), married Daniel T.
Polhemus; Katherine Bibb (deceased),
married Horace A. Field.

(VII) Charles Voorhees Crawford, fifth
son of William Henry and Leah (Con-
over) Crawford, was born November 17,
1844, at the old homestead at Crawford's
Corner, Holmdel township, Monmouth
county, New Jersey, and died at Keyport,
New Jersey, April 16, 1908, aged sixty-
four years, the last male survivor of his
family. After graduation from Glenwood
Institute, Matawan, New Jersey, he en-
tered the hardware business in New York
City, so continuing for a number of years,
very successfully. After he had amassed
a competency he retired from business,
returned to the old homestead and then
for several years was a director and secre-
tary of the Keyport Banking Company.

He never married, was very fond of the
old homestead and its surroundings, and

was one of the most upright of men, held
in high esteem by all who knew him.
Several months prior to his death he suf-
fered a paralytic stroke which was the
primary cause of his death. He was
buried in Holmdel Cemetery, April 18,
1908.

(The Bowne Line).

The Bowne arms are thus described :
Arms — Ermine, a lion rampant or, on a
canton of the second a mullet sable. Crest
— A demi-lion rampant sable, holding in
its dexter paw a sprig of laurel leaves
proper. Motto — Fama nominis bona.

The Bowne estate that was united with
the Crawford estate by the marriage of
William Crawford and Catherine Bowne,
was first owned by William Bowne,
founder of one of the oldest New Jersey
families, and one of the grantees of the
Monmouth Patent in 1665. He was in
Salem, Massachusetts, in 1631, there re-
ceiving a grant of land, May 17, 1637, and
soon after moved to Gravesend, Long
Island, where he was granted a "planting
lot," November 12, 1646. He was assist-
ant justice in 165 1, and attended a council
at New Amsterdam, held October 12,
1655. From 1655 to 1662, inclusive, he
was a magistrate. He was granted a
farm November 13, 1656, and in 1665 was
one of the grantees of the Monmouth
patent in New Jersey. In 1667 he was
located at Portland Point (Atlantic High-
lands), had a house lot at Middletown in
1675, and died at Portland Point, Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, in 1677. He
was a member of Assembly of New Jer-
sey in 1669, and member of the General
Court of deputies and patentees, the same
year. His first wife, whose Christian
name was Ann, bore him five children :
John, mentioned below; James; Andrew;
Philip ; Deborah, married Gershom Mott.
(II) Captain John Bowne, eldest son of
William and Ann Bowne, was born about
1630, in England, and was with his father

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at Gravesend, where he received a "plant-
ing lot" in 1647, ar>d was one of the sign-
ers of a petition for a minister in 1660.
He appears frequently in the records as
both a buyer and a seller of land, and was
one of the party who on December 6, 1663,
visited lands lying along the Raritan
river, in New Jersey. He was a delegate
to the Hempstead Convention, February
28, 1665, and in the same year, April 8,
1665, was one of the twelve patentees of
the Monmouth Patent (his father also ap-
pearing as one of the grantees). He set-
tled on this property in 1667, and was
head of one of the first five families in the
county. He was a member of the paten-
tees' court in 1670; was deputy in 1675-
1683, during the last four years was
speaker of the house, and sat in the first
legislature under the twenty-four pro-
prietors; was a judge of Monmouth
county courts, and in August, 1673, was
deputized with the admirals and com-
manders belonging to the States-General
and Prince of Orange. He was elected to
the first Provincial Assembly of New Jer-
sey in 1680 (page 87 of Col. of Eng. Man.),
also in 1681-82 and 1683 ; and in 1682 was
speaker of the house (page 167). He was
the first justice of the peace for Mon-
mouth county in 1683, and in December
of that year was commissioned major of
the First Militia Battalion of Monmouth
county. He was one of the founders of
the first Baptist church ever organized in
New Jersey, and donated the ground at
Middletown for the first church and for
a cemetery. Although never ordained, he
acted as the first minister of that church,
until a regular minister was settled over
the church, whose house was built in
1688-89. He was one of the largest land-
owners in the county, his acres being
numbered in the thousands, partly located
at what is now known as Crawford's Cor-
ner, near the town of Holmdel, then Mid-

dletown, and from there extending to
Raritan Bay. His father's Westfield
estate came to him in 1678, and 167 acres
of it, with the homestead site, is still
owned in the family, this ownership now
covering a period of 237 years. He died
January 4, 1684. From the late James G.
Crawford's Bowne papers is taken the
following:

Words of advice spoken by Capt. John Bowne
to his children as he lay on his death bed. Janu-
ary 3, 1684: "There is no way in the world for
a man to obtain felicity in this world, or in the
world to come, but to take heed to the ways of
the Lord, and to put his trust in Him, who deals
faithfully and truly with all men, for He knocks
at the doors of your heart and calls you to come
and buy, without money and without price. My
desire is that in all actions of Meum et tuum you
deal not deceitfully, but plain hearted with all
men, and remember that your dying father left
it with you for your instruction that when trust
is with your honor, to preserve it. And in all
contracts and bargains that you make, violate
not your promise, and you will have praise. Let
your mother be your counsellor in all matters of
difference, and go not to lawyers, but ask her
counsel first. If at any time you have an advan-
tage of a poor man at law, O! pursue it not, but
rather forgive him if he hath done you wrong,
and if you do so you will help the law of God and
of His people. Give not away to youthful jolli-
ties and sports, but improve your leisure time in
the service of God. Let no good man be dealt
churlishly by you, but entertain when they come
to your house. But if a vicious, wicked man
come, give him meat and drink to refresh him,
and let him pass by your door. It has been
many times in my thoughts that for a man to
marry a wife and have children and never take
care to instruct them, but leave them worse than
the beasts of the field, so that as a man ask con-
cerning the things of God, they know not what
it means. O! this is a very sad thing, but if we
can season our hearts so as to desire the Lord
to assist us, He will help us, and not fly from
us."

It was Captain John Bowne who built
the eastern part of the old Manor house,
a mansion built in the most substantial
manner. His grave is in the old burying

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ground at Middletown, and is marked by
the oldest stone in the yard. From the
Bowne papers owned by the late James G.
Crawford is taken the following:

After Capt. John Bowne's death, to divide
his estate as follows,— First— Lydia (Holmes)
Bowne is to have all the buildings of the de-
ceased John Bowne, with all improved lands,
with one-third of the whole plantation, called
Westfield, during her natural life, and then the
said third with all buildings and improvements
whatsoever, shall return to Obadiah Bowne, his
heirs and assigns forever, and also the said
Lydia Bowne is to have one-third part of the
movables, amounting unto the sum of 114 pounds,
to be at her sole disposal. * * * Fourthly —
Obadiah Bowne is to have all the remainder of
the plantation called Westfield, be it more or
less, to have and to hold to him, the said Oba-
diah Bowne, his heirs and assigns forever, and
the said Obadiah Bowne is to have 41 pounds
for his share of the movables, etc. etc. Capt.
John Bowne and his wife, Lydia Bowne, died in
the old part of the home on the Westfield prop-
erty and Obadiah Bowne resided and died there.
On April 15, 1697, John Bowne (2), son of Capt.
John Bowne (1), conveyed to his brother, Oba-
diah Bowne, of Monmouth County, New Jersey,
all his rights, titles, etc. in 769 acres of land at
Westfield, in Middletown Township, formerly
belonging to their father, Capt. John Bowne (1),
in 1678.*

Captain John Bowne married (first)
Lydia, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and
Catherine (Hyde) Holmes. Rev. Oba-
diah Holmes was a faithful leader of the
Baptists of Rhode Island, who, rather
than submit to an unjust fine, was pub-
licly whipped by the authorities in 1653.
He died in Newport, Rhode Island, Octo-
ber 15, 1682. As Captain John Bowne's
widow, Lydia Bowne is of frequent men-
tion in the old road records from 1684
until 1693, and is the party to whom the
Indians deeded certain lands Mav 10,

•On settling Capt. John Bowne's estate occurs
the following: '•Between ye widow, Lydia
Bowne, and ye children of the deceased John
Bowne. and Gershom Mott, son of ye deceased
John Bowne's sister, according to ye agreement
of ye abovesaid parties, as witness our hands
this 29th of April. 1686."

1690, also receiving 500 acres in Mon-
mouth county in 1688. Lydia Bowne's
antique snuff-box and many other things
are in possession of the remaining mem-
ber of the family. Captain John Bowne
married (second) July 12, 1669, Mary
Haverlads Felt. Issue (by first wife) :
Captain John (2), born April 1, 1664, mar-
ried Frances Bowman ; Obadiah, men-
tioned below; Deborah, January 26, 1668,
at Gravesend, Long Island, married Rich-
ard Stillwell. (By second wife) : Sarah,
November 27, 1670, at Gravesend, mar-
ried Richard Saltar ; Catherine, born at
Middletown, New Jersey, married Wil-
liam, son of Richard Hartshorne.

Andrew Bowne, a brother of Captain
John (1) Bowne, was a member of the
council of East New Jersey in 1692 ; presi-
dent of the court of sessions in 1696; sat
in a council held by the General Assem-
bly at Perth Amboy in 1699, as deputy
governor, an office he held from, 1682 until
1703 ; was commissioned in 1704, by Gov-
ernor Basse, to be third judge and assist-
ant to the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Judicature for the province of
East Jersey, and continued in that office
until 1706, by Lord Cornbury ; was com-
missioned Governor and Commander-in-
Chief with power to appoint a deputy
governor, by the committee of proprietors
of East Jersey in America, residing in or
about London, and by the rest of the pro-
prietors of the said provinces, March 27,
1 701 (Liber of Com., pages 65-66). Gov-
ernor Hamilton refused to recognize this
commission and he retained the offices
against all opposition. Governor Andrew
Bowne died in 1707, his will, dated May 6,
1707, giving his estate to his wife Eliza-
beth, and after her death to his grand-
children, John, Anne and Lydia, children
of Obadiah Bowne and Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Andrew Bowne.

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Captain John and Lydia (Holmes) Bowne,
was born July 18, 1666, at Gravesend,
Long Island, and died at the homestead
at Crawford's Corner (called Westfield),
Monmouth county, New Jersey, April 19,
1726. He was a man of education, of
great ability and independent spirit, and
highly respected. He served in 1696-97
as assessor, and later on a committee to
lay out roads. In 1703-04 he was a mem-
ber of the first and second provincial
assemblies, and in 1707 represented the
eastern district in the assembly. His
name appears in many land transactions,
and he was one of the important men of
his day.

He inherited that part of his father's
estate upon which stood the old home-
stead, built by his father, Captain John
Bowne, and in 1701 he built the entire
western part, with a fine English hall and
stairway, with a massive arch, supported
on each side by triple carved columns,
which were all kept intact. The immense
parlor, with beautiful arches and an enor-
mous double chimney, which ran from the
cellar and took in almost the entire west-
ern end of the house, had a large open
fireplace, surrounded by Biblical tiles,
which was walled up. The wide carved
wood frieze was removed, also the large
parlor door, upon which was painted
Biblical scenes and upon the upper panel
the Bowne crest. This western part of
the Manor house, built by Obadiah
Bowne, was like the eastern part, built in
a most substantial manner, the walls,
which were very thick, being filled in
with clay. The floor beams were of hewn
logs, some of them sixteen inches square,
while the laths were of the toughest
swamp oak, worked to proper dimensions
with the axe, and the shingles were scal-
loped. The nails used were made by a
blacksmith from wrought iron, some of
them are in possession of the family.
This Manor house was 75 feet by 45 feet.

Obadiah Bowne married (first) his
cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Governor
Andrew Bowne, who bore him three chil-
dren : John, mentioned below ; Ann, born
March 22, 1701, married William Chan-
ning, a New York merchant ; Lydia, Feb-
ruary 11, 1703, married John Pintard.
Their grandfather, Governor Andrew
Bowne, of Middletown, in his last will,
gave all his plantation, called Matawan,
unto these children of his daughter, Eliz-
abeth. Obadiah Bowne married (second)
Elizabeth Longfield, daughter of Cor-
nelius and Mary Longfield, and had four
children: Mary, born May 23, 1712, died
February 22, 1743, married Dr. Richard
Stillwell, son of Richard Stillwell and
Deborah Bowne ; Cornelius, born October
15, 1713, had wife Sarah; Obadiah (2),
born April 16, 1717. lived in Philadelphia
in 1743, was a mariner, and married, in
1749, Anna, daughter of Colonel John
Reid and Mary Sands; Thomas, born
June 9, 1 721, lived in New York, was a
mariner, and married, in 1748, Helen,
daughter of Colonel John and Mary
(Sands) Reid. August 20, 1747, Obadiah
(2), Cornelius and Thomas Bowne (mari-
ners) conveyed to John Bowne (3), their
elder brother, their share in the land, con-
taining 632 acres, and the Manor house,
formerly the dwelling place of their
father, Obadiah Bowne, "which now is
and has been for years the dwelling place
of the said John Bowne (3d)," in ex-
change for 513 acres at Matawan, which
was left John Bowne (3d) and his two
sisters by their father, Obadiah Bowne.
John Bowne (3d) also received land at
Chingaroras (Keyport) from his three
brothers — Cornelius, Obadiah (2) and
Thomas, which had been conveyed to
them by their father, Obadiah Bowne. In
1730 James Paul of Scotland and Middle-
town, made his will and left all he had to
the children of Obadiah Bowne and his
second wife, Elizabeth Longfield, "in con-

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sideration of manifold favors and kind-
ness received from Obadiah Bovvne in his
life time, as my diet and entertainment
for several years with other provisions
for me made by him,, both in my sickness
and health." (From Bowne-Crawford
papers).

(IV) Captain John (3) Bowne, eldest
child of Obadiah and Elizabeth (Bowne)
Bowne, was born May 29, 1700. and died
in the latter part of the year 1774. He in-
herited the homestead and other lands,
was judge of Monmouth county in 1741-
42, an educated, honored gentleman,
spending his life in the management of
his valuable estate. He married Anny
Lippitt, born November 29, 1702, daugh-
ter of Moses and Sarah (Throckmorton)
Lippitt, of Middletown. Children: Lydia,
born October 25, 1732; Andrew, May 26,
1734; Catherine, mentioned below. Much
of the Sheffield silver of John Bowne (3d)
is still in possession of the remaining
member of the family.

(V) Catherine Crawford, daughter of
Captain John (3) and Anny (Lippitt)
Bowne, was born March 12, 1736, and on
December 27, 1756, married William
Crawford, bringing to her husband the
Bowne estate and Manor house, so long
in her family, both residing there until
their death. The famous house which has
been known as both "Manor house" and
"Crawford Hall" was the family residence
until destroyed by fire, June 17, 1895. The
destruction of all wooden parts of the
famous structure was complete, the large
double chimney, the four old-fashioned
fireplaces, the arches and the cellar vaults
alone remaining to mark the site of this
long-time home of two of Monmouth's
noted families, the Bownes and Craw-
fords.

(The Conover Line).

This is a variation of the old Dutch
name which appears in earliest New York
records as Cowenhoven, Couwenhoven,

Kouwenhoven and Van Couwenhoven.
The form Kouwenhoven is retained by
that branch of the family which remained
on Long Island, while most of the de-
scendants who settled in New Jersey have
taken the form Conover.

Couwenhoven Arms — Argent, a cross
azure, on a canton three leopards' heads
erased, gules. Crest — A leopard's head of
the shield, between two wings addorsed,
the dexter argent, the sinister azure.
Motto — Sequitur zictoria fortes (Victory
follows the brave).

(I) Wolfert Gerretson Van Kowen-
hoven, the progenitor of the Conover fam-
ily in this country, came from Amers-
foort, province of Utrecht, Holland, in
the ship "Eendracht," and landed March
21, 1630, accompanied by his family. His
birthplace, Amersfoort, was an ancient
city, formerly surrounded with a wall,
with twenty towers, broken down in 1829.
He was employed in 1630 as superintend-
ent of farms by the Patroon Van Rensse-
laer, at Rensselaerwyck, now Albany ;
subsequent to this he cultivated a farm
on Manhattan Island, and later located
on Long Island. In June, 1637, in asso-
ciation with Andrus Hudde, they pur-
chased the westermost part of three flats
in Flatlands and Flatbush, and a patent
was issued to them by Director Van Twil-
ler, June 16 of that year. In 1639 he pur-
chased the interest of Hudde in these
lands, the deed for a house, barn, barrack
and garden, dated August 2. He took a
deed dated September 16, 1641, from
Hudde, of lands in the same neighbor-
hood, including sixty-eight morgens of
plainland and fifty-five and one-half acres
of woodland. Their settlement was first
named New Amersfoort, in honor of the
city of Wolfert's nativity, and afterwards
Flatlands. He probably removed to New
Amsterdam some years before his death,
as he appears as a great burgher there in
1657. and died in June, 1660. He was

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commissioner to Holland, 1653. His
wife's name was Neeltje (Nellie), and
they are known to have had sons : Gerret,
mentioned below; Jacob, who was one of
the agents in 1649, on the part of the
community to Holland ; Peter, who was a
brewer on the corner of the present
Whitehall and Pearl streets in New Ams-
terdam, where, among other offices, he
held that of magistrate for many years.

(II) Gerret Wolfertson Van Kowen-
hoven, son of Wolfert Gerretson and
Neeltje Van Kowenhoven, was born 1610,
in Holland, died 1645. He came with his
father to America and resided in Flat-
lands, where he purchased of Andrus
Hudde fifty morgens of land at "Achler-
velt," the deed bearing date July 26, 1638.
He was one of the eight men represent-
ing the people, who memorialized the
States-General, November 3, 1643, setting
forth the unprotected condition of the set-
tlers, and praying for better provision
against Indian depredations. A patent
for nineteen morgens of land was issued
in his name, March 11, 1747, after his
death. He married Altie, daughter of
Cornelius and Altie (Cooley) Lambert-
son, of Gowanus. Children : William
Gerretse, mentioned below ; Jan Gerretse,
born 1639, married Gerdientje, daughter
of Nicasius De Sille, fiscal of New Nether-
lands ; Neeltje Gerretse, born 1641, died
1672,. married, 1660, Roelof Martinse
Schenck. of Flatlands; Marritje Gerretse,
born 1643, died 1709, married Coert Ste-
phense Van Voorhees.

(III) William Gerretse Van Kouwen-
hoven, elder son of Gerret and Altie
(Lambertson) Van Kowenhoven, was
born 1636, in Flatlands, and resided early
in life in Brooklyn, where he was a mag-
istrate in 1661, 1662 and 1664, and deacon
of the Reformed Dutch Church in 1663.
He removed thence to Flatlands, his name
being on the patent for that town in 1667,
and on the assessment rolls in 1675, 1683

and 1693. He was an elder of the Re-
formed Dutch Church there in 1677, and
subscribed to the oath of allegiance in
1687. He sold his lands there to his son
William, in 1709, and probably removed
in his old age to Monmouth county, New
Jersey, where he died in 1727.

He married (first) in 1660, Altie, daugh-
ter of Joris Dircksen and Susanna (Dib-
bles) Brinckerhoff, who was widow Mat-
thews, and lived but a short time after her
marriage to Kouwenhoven. He married
(second) February 12, 1665, Jannetje,
daughter of Peter and Sarah (DePlanck-
en) Montfoort. Children : Gerret, born
January 4, 1662, resided at Flatlands and
Wallabout ; Altje, born December 14,
1665, married, March 16, 1687, Cornelius
Seymonse Van Arsdalen, of Flatlands,
died before 1691 ; Neeltje, born February
7, 1669, married John Peterse Wyckoff, of
Freehold, New Jersey; Peter, born Feb-
ruary 12, 1671, lived in New Jersey; Cor-
nelius, mentioned below; Sarah, born De-
cember 20, 1674, died January 31, 1731,
married, 1692, John R. Schenck, of New
Jersey; Albert, born December 7, 1676,
lived in New Jersey ; Jacob, born January
29, 1679, nved in New Jersey; John, born
April 9, 1681, lived in New Jersey; An-
natie, born April 13, 1683, married (first)
Albert Williamsen, (second) Johannes
Antonides, both of Monmouth county,
New Jersey; William, born March 7,
1686; Joris ; Jacomina, born December 28,
1689, married, June 5, 1709, Elbert Wil-
liamson, of Monmouth county, New Jer-
sey. The three sons, Cornelius, Albert
and Jacob, married three daughters of
Rulof Martense Schenck, whose wife was
Neeltje, daughter of Gerret Wolfertse
Van Kouwenhoven.

(IV) Cornelius Williamson Van Cou-
wenhoven, son of William Gerretse and
his second wife, Jannetje (Montfoort)
Van Kouwenhoven, was born November
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and 1287. He sold his estate in Geyen,
April i, 1287. His wife died in 1-71. and
in her memory he gave a revenue to the
Convent of Graevendael, near Goch, in
whose cloister she was buried. Of their
seven children, four were living in 1301.

(1 ) Ileinrich Schenck van Nydeck, the
first from whom a continuous line can be
traced, is mentioned in 1346 as a grand-
son of Wilhelmus Schenck, but the name
of his father is unknown. In [359 he was
assessed four men and horses, fully
equipped and armed, in fulfilment of a
treaty made by the Netherlands authori-
ties. 1 le was Lord of Afferden, a village
in ( Jeldern, and also Feoffer of Wachten-
donk. He sold the Court of Munster,
July 12, 1389, later called Munster
Mannshof, in the county of Geldern.

He married Aleid Van Rayde, who in-
herited the castle of Walbcck, which thus
came into possession of the Schenck fam-
ily. In consideration of one-half the
revenues of this estate, in 1581, Wilhelm
van Julich, Duke of Geldern, assumed the
protection of the village and parish. Hein-
rich Schenck had sons : YVynand and
Heinrich ; and a daughter. Lizbeth, who
became a nun at Graevendael. His estate
was divided, December 31, 1403.

(II) Ileinrich (2) Schenck van Ny-
deck, junior son of Heinrich (1) and
Aleid Schenck van Nydeck, received the
Court of Ten Broke, in Kampen. and an
estate at Ottersum, beside some revenues,
and became co-heir, with his brother, to
some other properties. The brother gave
him his share of Walbeck, and having no
heirs, the entire estate and title fell ulti-
mately to the junior son, Heinrich, who
was bailiff of Geldern, and died Decem-
ber 8, 1452.

He married Alheid van Goen van Kal-
denbrock, daughter of Allerd van Kalden-
brock and Anna Montfoort. his wife. They
had three children : Diedrick, Johann and
Alheit.

(III) Diedrick Schenck van Nydeck,
elder sun of 1 teinri< I rick van
Nydeck, inherited the paternal estates, to
which he added largely. Like his prede-
cessors he was a benefactor of the Convent
of Graevendael, to which he gave an
estate, June 1, 1443. He died 1487. Of
his eleven children, two were monks and
three were nuns.

(IV) Derick Schenck van Nydeck.
fourth son of Diedrick Schenck van Ny-
deck, received some property by inher-
itance, and in 1515 assumed the title and
ownership of the estate through the death
cf his elder brothers, and was Lord of
Afferden and Blydenbeck.

He married Alheit Custers. of Arssen
He had previously contracted two mor-
gan ic marriages, and for seventy years
his estate was in litigation. The civil
courts decided in favor of his children.
but the Pope decided against them, and
the matter was finally carried before the
Emperor. Charles V.. who ordered the
decree of the Pope sustained, October 21,
1540 As continental Europe was at
this time in a state of almost constant
war, the estate suffered heavily. Derick
Schenck had children : Otto, Derick.
Peter. Heinrich. Johann. Winand, Adel-
heid. Maria and Margaretha.

(V) Derick (2) Schenck van Nydeck,
second son of Derick (1) and Alheit
(Custers) Schenck van Nydeck. was born
about 1485, resided at Goch, and was Lord
of Afferden and Blydenbeck.

He married Maria van Galen, and but
one child is recorded.

(VI) Diedrick (2) Schenck van Ny-
deck. son of Derick (2) and Maria (van
Galen) Schenck van Nydeck, born about
1507, was Lord of Afferden and Blyden-
deck, and resided at Goch.

He married Anna Van Berlaer. Chil-
dren : Martin. Peter, Johann, Maria Mar-
garetha and Maria Magdalina.

(VII) Peter Schenck van Nydeck, sec-

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ond son of Diedrick (2) and Anna (Van
Rerlaer) Schenck van Nydeck, was born
in 1547, at Goch, and distinguished him-
self in the wars which raged almost con-
tinuously in the Netherlands, becoming
a general of the troops which defended
his native country.

He married, at Doesburg, May 17, 1580,
Johanna Van Scherpenzeel. They had
children: Wilhelmina and Martin.

(VIII) Martin Schenck, only son of
Peter and Johanna Schenck van Nydeck,
was born August 7, 1584, at Doesburg,
and started for America with three of
his children, dying on the voyage. The
constant wars in the Netherlands had
made the position of the family uncomfort-
able, and its members came to the New
World to improve their prospects. They
are supposed to have arrived in the ship
"de Valckener," in June, 1650. The elder
son, Roelof, settled in Flatlands, Long
Island, as did also the junior son, Jan.
The daughter, Anetje, married Adrian
Reyersz, of Flatlands.

(IX) Roelof Schenck, elder son of
Martin Schenck, was born in 1619, at
Amersfoort. Holland, and came to Amer-
ica in 1650 with his brother and sister,
settling in Flatlands, Long Island. He
resided for a time in Brooklyn, and re-
moved about 1660 to Amersfoort (Flat-
lands), where he died in 1704. He re-
ceived a grant of twenty-three morgens
of land there, January 29, 1661. He sub-
sequently purchased two hundred acres
and also bought of his brother one-half
of the mill subsequently known as
"Crookes Mill." He was one of the
grantees in the confirmatory patent
issued by Governor Nicolls, October 4,
1667. He was a magistrate in 1664, and
was deputy to the council held in the city
hall at New Amsterdam, March 26, 1674.
He was appointed schepen, August 16,
1676, and elected lieutenant of the local

militia, October 25 of the same year. In
1687 he subscribed to the oath of allegi-
ance to the British government, was com-
missioned December 12, 1689, a justice
for King's county, and held this office in
1693. He was commissioned captain of
a company of horse for King's county,
January 13, 1690. On a valuation of
property made in September, 1676, he
was credited with personal estate valued
at £152 14s, including five horses, six-
teen head of cattle and three swine, and
also with fifty-two morgens of land
valued at £104, making a total of £256
14s — a large valuation in that day. Only
one estate in the town was assessed at
greater value, and in 1681 his was the
highest in value in the town. In 1691 he
possessed four slaves.

He married (first) in 1660, Neeltje
(Nelly), daughter of Gerret Wolfertson
Van Kowenhoven. She was baptized
September io, 1641, in Flatlands, and died
about 1673. He married (second) in
1675, Annatje, daughter of Peter Clausen
Wyckoff, and (third) November 19, 1688,
Catherine Crigers, widow of Stoffel Hooj-
land. His first wife was a granddaughter
of Wolfert Gerretsen Van Kowenhoven,
who came from Amersfoort, Holland, in
1630, and died in 1661. His wife bore
the name of Neeltje, and their son, Ger-
ret, born 1610, died 1645. His wile> AltJe
Cornelisse, was a daughter of Cornells
Lambertsen Pool, of Gowanus, Long
Island, and they were the parents of
Neeltje, wife of Martin Roelof Schenck.
Children : Martin, born June 22, 1661 ;
Annatje, about 1663; Jannetje, about
1665 ; Marike, February 14, 1667 ; Jan,
March 1, 1670: Gerret, October 27, 1671,
died young. Children of second wife :
Margaret, mentioned below; Neeltje;
Maryken and Gerret.

(X) Margaret Roelofse Schenck, daugh-
ter of Roelof Schenck and child of his

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second wife, Annatje Wyckoff, became
the wife of Cornelius Willemse Conover,
of Middletown, New Jersey (see Con-
over IV).

HEDDEN, Viner Jones,

Contracting Builder, Public Official.

The name of Hedden, Hodden and
Hoddon is of ancient origin and has
many corruptions such as : Headen,
Hedde, Hedin, Headden, and Heady. The
name is distinctly English although we
find it in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
That they fought in the crusades is evidenced
by the crescent on the armorial bearings.
The coat-of-arms is described as follows:
Quarterly first and fourth, argent a saltire
engraved sable. Second, argent a saltire
engraved between four roses, gules.
Third, or, a bend chequy argent and
sable. In the center over the quarter-
ings is a crescent argent. Crest : An
eagle erased or. Motto: "Suffer." An
engraving in colors of these arms is now
in possession of Mrs. Julia (Hedden)
W'urthington, of New York City.

(I) Jared (or Gerard) Hadden was born
in England about 1608, and probably
came in the fleet with Winthrop, as he
is mentioned among the first hundred men
of the Boston church admitted prior to
any second arrival of freemen, May 14,
1634. His first settlement was at Cam-
bridge in 1632, where he was made a
freeman ; he owned a house and three
acres ; was a tailor and planter ; was a
proprietor of Salisbury, Massachusetts,
in 1640, receiving land in the first di-
vision, and was among those who moved
to the west side of the Powow in 1644;
was a commoner and taxed in 1650; one
of the first settlers in Amesbury, 1654-55,
receiving land there, 1654-64; received a-
seat in the meeting house, 1667, a mem-
ber of the Salisbury church, 1677-87; re-
ceived "children's land" in Amesbury for

a daughter, 1659, and a "township" for
a daughter, 1600; was a selectman in
1680; died at Amesbury, 16^9, leaving
several children.

(II) Edward Hedden, possibly a son
of Jared or Gerard Hadden, was born in
1660. He married Jane Jones, a \\ elsh
girl, and they settled at the "Mountain,"
South Orange, New Jersey, where they
received grants of land. Jane Hedden,
born 1668, was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, at Newark, prior
to the formation of the "Mountain So-
ciety," and is interred in the burial ground
of the church on Broad street, having
died February 23, 1773. Children: John,
Joseph, of further mention; Eleazer ;
Oliver; Diana; Rebecca. The Heddens
owned much land, the sons being the
possessors of tracts later known as the
Hedden tracts at South Orange, at the
"Mountain," near Luddington brook and
Rahway river, where Edward and Jane
Hedden lived and died.

(III) Joseph Hedden, son of Edward
and Jane (Jones) Hedden, was born at
Newark. New Jersey, 1702, and died in
that part of the town, now Orange, No-
vember 3, 1798. In association with his
brother John he owned lands at the
"Mountain," where he settled. At vari-
ous times he sold portions of this land.
On the death of Joseph Hedden the "Cen-
tennial of Freedom," of Newark, said:
"This venerable citizen has from his
youth sustained the character of an
honest and upright man and was much
lamented by those who were acquainted
with him. He had thirteen children, one
hundred and seventy-six grandchildren,
and three great-grandchildren." He was
wont to speak with pride of the fact that
he had eight sons who served their coun-
try during the Revolution. ("Shaw's
History," page 38.) He is buried beside
his wife, Rebecca, both having been mem-
bers in full communion of the "Moun-

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tain Society," prior to 1756. He married
(first) Rebecca Dod, born 1703, died May
14, 1745, daughter of Daniel and Eliza-
beth (Riggs) Dod, and granddaughter of
Stephen Dod, of Guilford, Connecticut.
He married (second) Rebecca, daughter
of Matthew and Ruth (Wheeler) Wil-
liams. Children : Ebenezer, David, Eli-
jah, Job, Simon, Martha, Phebe, Rebecca,
Elizabeth, Joseph, Jr., Jonathan, of fur-
ther mention ; Sarah, Joanna.

(IV) Jonathan Hedden, son of Joseph
and Rebecca (Dod) Hedden, was born in
that part of Newark, now South Orange,
New Jersey, 1733, died near the present
Burnet street, East Orange, December 25,
1795. He was a young lad when he
learned the tailor's trade, which he fol-
lowed many years. He prospered in his
calling, amassed a competence, and pur-
chased the property through which Bur-
net street now runs. He and his brothers
all served through the Revolutionary
War. After the Revolution he was one
of the incorporators of the Second Pres-
byterian Church of Newark (Brick
Church of Orange) ; he became one of
the seven trustees and was duly qualified
before Judge Peck at the parsonage
house, September 22, 1776, each trustee
taking the Oath of Allegiance to his coun-
try. He was elected president of this
body in the fall of the year, and filled this
office many years. He married Phebe,
daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Free-
man) Canfield, and had: Caleb, Daniel,
Abial, of further mention ; Jotham, Mary,
Rebecca, Deborah.

(V) Abial Hedden, son of Jonathan
and Phebe (Canfield) Hedden, was born
in what is now East Orange, New Jersey,
July 11, 1767, and died at Orange, New
Jersey, later East Orange, September 24,
1841. In early life he learned the trade
of stone cutting, which he followed in
connection with farming, all his life.
Some of his work was done in the con-

struction of the forts of Castle Garden
and Lafayette, at New York harbor. He
was also the village undertaker. He was
one of the prosperous farmers of the sec-
tion, owning about twenty-five acres in
East Orange, from Main street almost to
Central avenue ; when Burnet street was
cut through this property, his homestead
was moved back so that it faces Burnet
street now, near the railroad. He was a
member of the First Presbyterian Church,
and was a Whig. He married, September
23, 1790, a first cousin, Mrs. Betsey (Hed-
den) Sayre, whose first husband, Samuel
Sayre, a soldier of the Revolution, had
left her a widow at the age of twenty
years with three children : John Low and
Catherine, twins ; and Margaret. Chil-
dren : Phebe. Margaret, Uzal W., Caleb,
Sarah Low, Elijah, Samuel Sayre, of fur-
ther mention ; Betsy Joanna, died in in-
fancy ; Abial, Jr. ; Betsey Joanna.

(VI) Samuel Sayre Hedden, son of
Abial and Betsey (Hedden-Sayre) Hed-
den, was born on the Hedden homestead
in East Orange, New Jersey, August 24,
1803, died September 20, 1876, on Hedden
place. He was reared on the homestead
farm, attending the district school during
the winter months. In early manhood he
was apprenticed to Cyrus Jones to learn
the hatter's trade. Not long after his
marriage he purchased a farm of ten
acres, which he cultivated with the as-
sistance of his sons. His homestead was
the first beyond the "Meadow Brook," a
good stream then with fine fish. He also
followed the trade of hatter, working for
Cyrus Jones, whose shop was near Munn
avenue. He also worked for the Stetson
Hat Company and other factories at
Orange and East Orange. After 1858 he
abandoned the hat trade and devoted him-
self to the cultivation of his farm. This
was cultivated along the most advanced
and scientific ideas, and netted a satisfac-
tory income. He was fond of his gun and

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his clog, and an excellent shot ; he hunted
for the New York market, and during the
season supplied the most famous New
York hotels with game. His farm, which
he deeded to his children in equal por-
tions before his death, has now been
largely cut up and sold. He was retiring
in his habits, an avid reader of the daily
papers, and devoted to his home and chil-
dren. For a time he attended the Baptist
church of East Orange, then the Rose-
ville Presbyterian Church. He was a
staunch Democrat, and served in the
Orange militia, lie married Mary Ann
Cochran, born at East Orange, December
6, 1806, died February 26, 1877, daughter
of James and Sarah ( Wright) Cochran,
and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth
(Peck) Cochran, who came from Scot-
land, the former being a weaver by trade.
Children : Viner Jones, died young; Sarah
Elizabeth ; Viner Jones, subject of this
sketch; Harriet Marvin; Mary Olivia;
George Washington ; Albert Emmet,
whose sketch follows ; Alonzo S. ; Sam-
uel Clinton.

(VII) Viner Jones Hedden, son of
Samuel Sayre and Mary Ann (Cochran)
1 ledden, was born at East Orange, New
Jersey, on the homestead of his father
and grandfather, July 29, 1827, and died
September 11, 1914. He acquired his ele-
mentary education at the district school
on the Orange road, now Main street, be-
tween Munn and Maple avenues, and then
studied at the private school conducted
by Dr. Wicks at Newark, attending there
four terms. At the age of eighteen years
he was apprenticed to William Whitte-
more, to remain with him until he had at-
tained his majority, in order to learn the
trade of carpenter, and later worked as a
journeyman for Baldwin & Hedden, Mr.
Hedden of that firm being a cousin, Min-
ard Hedden, a son of Uzal Wr. Hedden.
About 1850 Mr. Hedden, with Joseph J.
Meeker, formed a partnership under the

firm name of Meeker & Hedden, with
quarters where V. J. Hedden & Sons
Company was later located, at the time
it was dissolved. The firm was later
changed to V. J. Hedden & Sons. Mr.
Hedden being in business at the above
location for more than sixty years.
Among the many notable buildings they
erected were the Trader's Bank, Toronto,
Canada ; the New Jersey State Asylum,
at Morris Plains; the New York Produce
Exchange; the Metropolitan Building,
New York City; Taft Hotel, New Haven,
Connecticut; all the Prudential buildings
in Newark, New Jersey; the new Court
House, Newark; American Insurance
Building, Newark; Young Women's
Christian Association Building, Newark;
and numerous important buildings in
many other cities. In earlier years they
erected many fine private residences on
Fifth avenue, New York City, but in later
years the business was more occupied
with large contracts for office buildings.
When Mr. Meeker died in 1884, Mr. Hed-
den admitted his three sons — Charles R.,
Samuel S. and Louis O. — as equal part-
ners, continuing as V. J. Hedden & Sons.
They manufactured every variety^ of in-
terior finish and later became general
contractors. June 1, 1896. the business
was incorporated under New Jersey laws,
as Y. J. Hedden & Sons Company, the
officers being: Viner J. Hedden, president
and treasurer; Charles R. Hedden, first
vice-president; Louis O. Hedden, second
vice-president; Samuel S. Hedden, secre-
tary. Charles R. Hedden withdrew in
1907, and Louis O. Hedden became first
vice-president. They became general
contractors and builders in 1890, and in
addition to the buildings above mentioned
they erected the Mutual Benefit Life In-
surance Company's building, Newark ;
Howard Savings Bank; American Insur-
ance Company's building; many of the
station buildings on the Morris & Essex

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Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad; and did much of
the work in this line for the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey. The firm had one
of the most finely equipped plants in the
country and made a specialty of interior
finish from the most costly woods.

In his political views Mr. Hedden was
an Independent on general principles, and
served his city as a member of the Com-
mon Council although he had never
sought political preferment. He was a
member of the East Orange Baptist
Church, and one of its most liberal sup-
porters. He was a member of the Newark
Board of Trade. His fraternal affiliations
were as follows: One of the four oldest
members of Northern Lodge, No. 25,
Free and Accepted Masons; Harmony
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Cain
Council, Royal and Select Masters; Da-
mascus Commandery, Knights Templar,
Newark.

Mr. Hedden married at Newark, May 21,
185 1, Elvira Vader Meeker, born June 8,
1832, died April 26, 1907, daughter of Caleb
Halsey and Hannah Meeker. Children: 1.
Charles Rohrbach, born March 25, 1852;
married, June 17, 1874, Martha Havell,
born July 9, 1S53, daughter of Henry and
Mary Etta (Devoe) Havell; children:
Etta and Lillian. 2. Samuel Sayre, born
September 1, 1854; married, September
13, 1876, Emma Jane Coles, born April
4, 1856, daughter of Jacob Lorenzo and
Sarah (Morningstern) Coles; children: i.
Viner Jacob, born June 2, 1878; married,
October 3, 1906, Florence McMullen,
daughter of Henry A. and Ella Matilda
(Mertz) McMullen, and has children:
Jane Matilda, Viner Jacob, Eugenia, ii.
Edith Carrie, born August 29, 1882. iii.
Daisy Madeline, born August 30, 1888. 3.
Abbie Ward, born July 4,-1857; married,
May 21, 1879, Edwin James Meeker, born
June u, 1853, son of Edwin L. and Pa-

melia (James) Meeker ; children : i. Her-
bert James, born February 21, 1879; mar-
ried, December 2, 1905, Pearl Brewster;
child: Doris, born February 13, 1908.
ii. Evelyn Eugenia, born August 1, 1881,
died September 24, 1884. iii. Harold
Ernest, born March 31, 1883. iv. Edwin
William, born November 20, 1885. v.
Norman Hedden, born May 10, 1888. vi.
Dorothy, born September 22, 1895. 4.
Louis Oscar, born July 19, 1859 ; married,
July 2, 1884, Mabel Campbell Stevenson,
born July 6, 1852, daughter of George
Washington and Susan Emeline (Tomp-
kins) Stevenson; children: i. Myra Mc-
Kay, born May 3, 1886; married Lewis
Ferry, ii. Donald Stevenson, born June
4» I§95- 5- Eugene Bleything, born May
11, 1862; married Harriet S. Harrison;
three children. 6. Emma Louise, born
April 8, 1865 ; married, June 18, 1890,
Louis Edwin McCoy, born January 22,
1861, son of Nathaniel Drake and Jane
(White) McCoy; children: i. Louis Eu-
gene, born April 30, 1893, died May 9,
1893. ii. Ralph Hedden, born August 26,
1895, died August 26, 1895. iii. Robert
Graves, born April 26, 1899. iv. Donald
Edwin, born August 20, 1902. 7. Minnie
E., born October 15, 1867, died January
22, 1870. 8. Alonzo Brown, born Sep-
tember 13, 1869; married, February 24,
1897, Sadie Elizabeth Van Houten,
daughter of Edgar W. and Emma (Bales)
Van Houghton ; child, Doris, born April
2, 1905, died April 10, 1905. 9. Minnie
Elmira, born September 15. 1871 ; mar-
ried, April 12, 1893, Claude E. Lanter-
man, born May 11, 1869, son of William
G. and Jane Hall (Adams) Lanterman ;
children: i. Helen Blanche, born Septem-
ber 21, 1895. ii. and iii. William Gerald
and Geraldine Hedden, twins, born May
31, 1905. 10. Alice, born April 11, 1879,
died April 3, 1908.
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HEDDEN, Albert Emmet,

Artistic Wood Worker.

Albert Emmet Hedden, son of Samuel
Sayre and Mary Ann (Cochran) Hedden,
was born on his father's homestead, Hed-
den plac;. then known as the old road to
Orange, May 4, 1841, and died in March,
1915. He attended the district school up
to the age of sixteen years, afterward
Bryant & Stratton's College at Indian-
apolis, Indiana, from which he was gradu-
ated. He then served a four years' ap-
prenticeship at the carpenter's trade with
Meeker & Hedden, at Newark, with whom
he was associated as a journeyman three
years, then foreman, and later as super-
intendent of the entire plant, his entire
association with the Hedden Company,
which has been described at length in the
preceding paragraphs, extending over a
period of more than fifty-five years.

From early childhood he had been a
close student and lover of nature, study-
ing the woods and fields, and became an
expert in the judgment of timber. He
made a study of the various kinds of
woods for their comparative values for
building purposes, and had an especial
admiration for the higher grades of woods
for interior decoration, his knowledge be-
ing valued as an expert in the matter of
veneers and all kinds of precious woods.
His taste was refined, and he designed,
and had made up many exquisite hand-
carved pieces of furniture, which showed
the true artist's appreciation both in the
design and in the selection of the woods
of which they were fashioned. Favorites
with him were mahogany and native
apple. He was constantly consulted by
leading architects, as an authority to be
relied on as to the proper woods and tim-
ber to be utilized in order to obtain the
best results, not alone as to safety and
durability, but so as to obtain the best

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possible artistic effects. He was also
rated as an authority on birds and plants,
and in his later years made a study of
ferns, gathering and cultivating numerous
varieties. All of his time not demanded
by his business duties was devoted to
nature study in many directions. He col-
lected butterflies and beetles ; spent a
great deal of time in the woods and fields,
gathering and "sliding" plants and
flowers; was a constant reader on these
subjects, and in close touch with the best
authorities on them.

In political matters Mr. Hedden pre-
ferred to form his opinions independently,
and when they were formed, he had the
courage of his convictions. His religious
affiliation was with the Roseville Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, in which he served
as a steward for a number of years. His
home was on Hedden place, East Orange,
where he had erected a fine residence in
1875. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity, having first joined St. Albans
Lodge, No. 68, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, later became a charter member of
Hope Lodge, of East Orange, from which
he was demitted and joined Northern
Lodge, No. 25, of Newark. He was a
member of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, at Newark, in whose interests he
was active.

Mr. Hedden married (first) Harriet
Garland, daughter of Robert and Jean-
nette (Thompson) Young, the former a
hat finisher. He married (second) March
18, 1875, Mary E. Rittenhouse, born May
5, 1840, died August 9, 1905, a daughter
of Abner and Frances (Snyder) Ritten-
house, the former a cooper and farmer.
Only child by the first marriage: Robert
Emmet; children by second marriage:
Anna Mary, born April 19, 1876; Mabel,
born August 20, 1877; married Harry
Peck Havell, and has children: Harriet
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Emmet, born May 2, 1914; Albert Her-
mann, born July 23, 1881, is an engineer
and a designer of iron work for buildings ;
married, June 17, 1908, Daisy D. Hunt,
and has: Elizabeth Ann, born May 10,
1912, and Albert Emmet, born May 22,
I9I5-

KENYON, David Randolph,

Manufacturer, Inventor.

Ready when the Master called, Mr.
Kenyon slowly sank under the attacks of
heart disease and closed his earthly ca-
reer, May 16, 1901. A prominent manu-
facturer of Raritan, New Jersey, he was
moreover an exemplary man in all his
relations with life. He possessed sterling
qualities of character, was an influential
citizen, always taking an interest in every
enterprise that tended towards the pros-
perity of Raritan. He was ever ready to
extend help to the needy and sympathy
to those in distress. He was a son of
Palmer Kenyon, one of the first settlers
of Raritan, New Jersey, there being but
seven houses there when Mr. Kenyon
came from Belvidere to Raritan.

He was a grandnephew of the founder
of Kenyon College. Ohio, and paternally
was a descendant of the New York branch
of the Kenyon family, a second cousin of
Congressman Kenyon of that State. Ma-
ternally he descended from Stephen Crane
who. with a company of one hundred and
thirteen, bought and repaired the ship
"Caledonia" at their own expense and
came to America from England to escape
persecution. The "Caledonia" was wrecked
off Amboy, New Jersey, but all reached
shore in safety. They were among the
first settlers of Elizabeth, New Jersey,
and there and in Newark many of the
descendants still reside.

David Randolph Kenyon was born at
Belvidere, New Jersey, October 30. 1836.

died at Raritan, New Jersey, May 10, 1901.
After gaining an education he learned the
machinist's trade in the machine shops
founded by his father and then operated
by the Kenyon estate. After learning his
trade he worked in Brooklyn, New York,
becoming an expert worker in steel and
becoming thoroughly familiar with the
designing and building of machinery.
Shortly after the Civil War he formed a
partnership with his brother, J. C. Ken-
yon, and engaged in the manufacture of
machinery. About 1876 they began the
manufacture of textile and finishing ma-
chinery, also made the New York meat
chopper, a patented device invented by
David R. Kenyon, a machine which had
a world wide sale and is yet on the mar-
ket.. The plant of the company was
located at Raritan, New Jersey, and in
addition to the manufacture of machinery
used in woolen manufacture, Mr. Kenyon
made many valuable improvements in
that class of machinery which have been
introduced into the factories of Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire. New York,
Xew Jersey and Ohio, while his patented
machines are in use in almost every coun-
try of the world. A most valuable im-
provement was a machine for the manu-
facture of chinchilla cloth, the new ma-
chine making all the various grades of
that cloth. He also patented a cloth dry-
ing machine which is very valuable to
the manufacturers.

In 1895 the firm of D. R. Kenyon &
Son was formed, Mr. Kenyon continuing
the active head until his death in 1901.
The business is still continued by the son,
C. C. Kenyon, the products of the mill be-
ing shipped all over the world, largely,
however, in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Kenyon was president of the Raritan
Savings Bank, president of the Bridge-
water school board, member of the board
of county commissioners, member of the
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Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia.
member of Somerville Lodge, i\o. 46,
Free and Accepted .Masons, and of the
Second Reformed Church of Somerville,
New Jersey. For several years he served
as committeeman, but refused all other
oilers of political preferment although
often importuned.

Mr. Kenyon married, December 2, (863,
Mar) Elizabeth Carhart, of Clinton, New-
Jersey. Their children are: 1. Minnie
M.. unlovv of Henry P. Vanderveer, now
a resident of Somerville, New Jersey. 2.
Angeline D., an artist in oils; she studied
her art at the School of Industrial Arts
Philadelphia, and in the Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art in New York City and has
gained success as an artist. 3. Charles
C, of the firm of D. R. Kenyon & Son ;
is a graduate of Stevens Institute of
Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, class
of 1894, partner with his father from 1895
to 1901 ; at the time of death of his father
he became sole owner of the business ;
ex-mayor of Somerville, New Jersey;
member of Manufacturers' Club of Phil-
adelphia ; and member of the Masonic-
order.

SPEAKMAN, William Elwood,

Man of Affairs.

A scion of distinguished Colonial and
Revolutionary family, Mr. Speakman was
widely and prominently connected with
many leading patriotic and historical so-
cieties of Philadelphia, New Jersey and
elsewhere, and after an active, successful
business life retired to his home in Wood-
bury, New Jersey, and there resided until
his death. He was widely known as a
chemist and able business man through-
out New Jersey and the Eastern States,
his long connection with the wholesale
drug trade through his prominent Phila-
delphia house bringing him prominently

before the trade. He had other important
business interests, and was a well-known
club member as well as being deeply in-
terested in fraternity and philanthropy.
A man of culture and refinement, he
sought only that which was noble and
elevating in life and numbered his friends
among those of similar tastes.

William Elwood Speakman was born
in Camden, New Jersey, December 13,
1858, died at his home in Woodbury, New
Jersey, May 13, 1915. After extended
courses of preparatory and classical study,
he entered Philadelphia College of Pharma-
cy, whence he was graduated and awarded
the pharmacist's degree. His busines?
life was spent in Philadelphia in associ-
ation with a leading wholesale drug
house, and after a successful business ca-
reer he withdrew from active participa-
tion in its affairs, retiring to the compan-
ionship of his books, his friends, indulg-
ing in extensive travels abroad and in
pursuits congenial to a man of his tastes
and means. He was a director of the
Delaware Insurance Company, member of
the board of managers of Red Bank Sani-
tarium, and of the Transatlantic Society
of America, and held membership in the
Atlantic Union of London, the Colonial So-
ciety of New England, the New Jersey So-
ciety Sons of the Revolution, Pennsylvania
Society Sons of the Revolution, the Wash-
ington Association of Morristown, New
Jersey, the Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania, the Historical Society of New
Jersey. His clubs were the Union League
of Philadelphia, Philobiblon Society of
Philadelphia, and the Navy League. He
was a member of Florence Lodge, No. 87,
Free and Accepted Masons, also holding
the degrees of Royal Arch and Templar
Masonry. He was a devout churchman,
serving Christ Episcopal Church. Wood-
bury, as vestryman and senior warden
for many years.

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Mr. Speakman married, October 15, was educated in the public schools and

1885, Martha C. Winchester, of Wilkes- the "Free Academy," now the College of

Barre, Pennsylvania, who survives him the City of New York. After completing

with one daughter, Eleanor B. Speakman, his studies he entered into business life,

and two brothers, Rev. Henry D. Speak- soon becoming a member of Spies, Kis-

man and Dr. Howard Draper Speakman,
of Pau, France.

GALES, Joseph,

Exemplary Citizen.

Although a native son of North Caro-
lina, Mr. Gales in his boyhood came to
New York City, where he was afterwards
prominent in the business world. He was
of English ancestry, his grandfather,
Joseph (1) Gales, having been born in
Sheffield, England, where he was for
many years editor of the Sheffield "Reg-
ister." Later in life he came to the
United States, living for a short time in
Philadelphia from whence he went to
Washington and afterwards to Raleigh,
North Carolina, where he spent the re-
mainder of his life. He married Winifred
Marshall, of Carleton-on-Trent, England.
One of his sons, Joseph (2) Gales, was
with his brother-in-law, William W.
Seaton, editor of the Washington "Na-
tional Intelligencer."

Another son, Weston Raleigh Gales,
father of Joseph (3) Gales, was born in
Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was
for many years editor of the Raleigh
"Register." He died in Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, July 23, 1848. His wife, Mary
(Spies) Gales, was born in New York
City, October 29, 1815, died August 9,
1907.

Joseph (3) Gales, son of Weston
Raleigh and Mary (Spies) Gales, was
born in Raleigh, North Carolina, April
29, 1847, died at his home in Elizabeth,
New Jersey, May 1, 1916. After his
father's death in 1848, he was brought by
his mother to New York City, where he

sam & Company, dealers in sporting
goods. Later he became a member of the
firm of Schoverling, Daly & Gales, also
dealers in sporting goods, and at its in-
corporation he was chosen president,
which position he retained with capability
and efficiency until his death in his
seventieth year. Mr. Gales stood high in
the business world as a man of ability
and strong character, his name carrying
weight in all matters of business impor-
tance. He stood for righteousness in
business as well as in private life, and on
that principle guided the destinies of the
corporation of which he was the execu-
tive head. When the Hardware Club of
New York City was formed. Mr. Gales
was one of the charter members and for
two years had been its president.

In the late sixties he went to New Jer-
sey to reside, where he became affiliated
with St. John's Episcopal Church, serving
for over a quarter of a century as Sunday
school superintendent, vestryman and
warden. His church interest extended to
all parish affairs and for many years he
sat as a delegate in the diocesan conven-
tion. He was a member of the Southern
Society and of the New York Hardware
Club.

In 1875, Mr. Gales married Julia L.
Spencer, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, daugh-
ter of Robert Dayton and Elizabeth Og-
den Spencer. Mrs. Gales on her father's
side is descended from Colonel Oliver
Spencer, General Elias Dayton, one of
the presidents of the Society of the Cin-
cinnati, and Jonathan Dayton, one of the
framers of the Constitution of the United
States. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Bar-
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great-grandfather in the maternal line.
Besides his wife, Mr. Gales is survived
by two sons : Weston Spies Gales, of
Detroit, Michigan, and Robert Spencer
Gales, of Westfield, New Jersey. Mr.
Gales was respected by all for his sterling
business qualities, his charming person-
ality, his ready sympathy and generous
soul.

BERG, Frederick,

Business Man, Civil War Veteran.

Frederick Berg, son of George and
Frederica (Hill) Berg, was born March
I, 1834, in Uberau, in the province of
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. This prov-
ince is composed of two main parts, sepa-
rated from each other by a narrow strip
of Prussian territory. The northern part
is the province of Uberhessen ; the south-
ern part is nearby the provinces of Stock-
enburg and Rheinhessen. This section of
the country is very hilly, yet of no great
elevation. And it was here that Fred-
erick Berg spent the early part of his life.

When one looks back into the early life
of Mr. Berg, we readily see that he was
offered every possible opportunity a boy
could have in order to build for himself a
strong, healthy body. His father being
a farmer naturally meant that Mr. Berg
spent many hours in the field. The
youth's training w; s gained in the school
of experience, where he learned that fru-
gality and ambition are the key to suc-
cess. There are very few men to-day who
are able to say that they have remained
firm to the teachings of their boyhood.
This was not the case with Mr. Berg.
Along with his practical training, this
perfect example of sturdy youth received
his schooling in the neighboring "Volke-
schule," where in former years his Grand-
father Hill had presided. The time which
ordinarily would be allotted to most boys

for play, Mr. Berg spent in hard labor,
and it is interesting to notice that he
trained his sons in the same manner.

It might be worthy to mention that,
when only two years of age, his parents
emigrated to Poland, a country — just as
our west was — abundant in opportunities
for the farmer. But his parents met with
failure in this broad, uncultivated region
and were forced to return to Uberau
penniless. Here Mr. Berg's father and
able-bodied brothers toiled night and day
to regain that which they lost.

Frederick Berg was the youngest of a
family of nine children. Lizzie, the
oldest, married when quite young and
died at the age of ninety-one. Two
children survived her; namely, George
and Margaretta. Rebecca, the second
child, married and came to America
in 1841. Nothing has been heard of
her since. Margaretta, the third child,
married and spent the remainder of her
life in Germany. She also lived to the old
age of eighty-one. George, the oldest
son, married and resided in his native
land. He lived to be sixty-three years of
age. Catherine, the fifth child, married
and remained in Hesse-Darmstadt the re-
mainder of her life. Marie, the youngest
daughter, came to America, where she
died at middle age. Henry, the second
oldest son, studied piano manufacture in
Vienna, where he for a time was inter-
ested in the same. He likewise got the
fever for the new world to which he came
in 1852. Nothing has been heard of him
since his arrival in this country. Philip,
the eighth child, spent most of his life
in Vienna. He is said to have been an
enthusiastic socialistic worker.

Upon completion of his studies, Mr.
Berg, then only sixteen years of age,
gave up the rural life of his forefathers
and journeyed to Vienna to learn a trade.
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from whom he learned that trade. Dur-
ing his stay in Vienna, his brothers, Philip
and Henry, were of considerable assist-
ance to him offering him from time to
time that ever welcomed "big brother"
aid. In those days, hat manufacture was
not conducted as it is to-day — in one
locality. The people did not have run-
ning water — water, which is the essential
thing in the making of the hat — nor did
they have modern mechanical devices, for
it was about this time that the steam
engine was invented ; in fact, the first rail-
road of the continent was built from
Nurhberg to Furth when Mr. Berg was
an infant. Consequently, one branch of
hatting was probably conducted at a con-
siderable distance from another. Mr.
Berg used to speak of the many trying
hours he spent at the side of a nearby
stream shrinking felt.

After becoming what one might call
an expert at the trade, having mas-
tered the business in all its branches, he
in 1854 journeyed upon his "Wander-
schaft" for two years, but first of all made
a short visit at his home in Uberau. This
journey was experienced by most boys of
the time. As its name implies, it was
merely wandering from town to town,
stopping a short time in each town to
practice a newly learned trade. This
journey as one can see helped to give Mr.
Berg a broad view of the hatting trade
and not a narrow one as he probably
would have had, providing he had re-
mained in Vienna. This "Wanderschaft"
meant hard labor and very often despair
to a young apprentice, but Mr. Berg had
in his nature that inexhaustible endurance
and "stickatitiveness," which meant so
much to him in later life. He wandered
in this manner for two years and finally
completed his journey in the city of Dant-
zig where he remained for almost a year.

Upon the arrival of his twenty-second

birthday he was compelled to go home to
see if he must serve in the army. Every
youth was not obligated to serve his coun-
try, and the way in which this was ascer-
tained was by drawing numbers. The
place for this drawal was Dickburg — not
very far from his home village — and Mr.
Berg with many other youths assembled
to "try their luck." As the case turned
out, he drew a high number, which meant
that he was not compelled to serve. An
amusing tale in reference to this big day
is told of Mr. Berg. The drawal took
place in the loft of a two-story building,
which had a balcony. As soon as he dis-
covered his luck — I say "luck" because
had he drawn a low number, his oppor-
tunities of migrating to America, which
affected his life so immensely, would have
been destroyed — he with several other
young men leaped from this balcony to
the ground. They all apparently had the
same idea in mind, which was to hire a
band and celebrate their freedom, for
serving in the army in those days was by
no means an easy mode of life.

It is a question just as to what induced
Mr. Berg to come to America. The con-
ditions in the Fatherland then were in a
most unsatisfactory state to a young man
of a freedom-loving and ambitious dispo-
sition. Germany at that time was com-
posed of a new democracy and the old
aristocracy. A conflict naturally ensued
which turned out in an actual victory for
the former, and it was either because of
hopelessness for the future, or the popu-
lar longing for the new world, which in-
duced Mr. Berg to make the then tedious
journey of sixty-three days to America.

His arrival in this country in the year
1856 marks the turning point of his life.
His journey to this country so far as we
know passed uneventful, except for the
one acquaintance which he made in the
person of a Mr. Carl Croll. This gentle-

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man remained a lifelong friend of Mr.
Berg, and it was death only which sev-
ered their mutual friendship. It seems
strange that both of these gentlemen
should interest themselves in the hatting
trade, although Mr. CrolPs business dif-
fered slightly in that he manufactured
caps. This gentleman located himself in
Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Berg, upon leaving Mr. Croll,
headed directly for Orange, New Jersey,
in which place he had been directed.
Upon his arrival in < (range he called upon
a Mr. Henry W. Egner, who at that time
ciuiied a jewelry store on Main street of
the aforesaid city. Mr. Egner was Mr.
Berg's first acquaintance in this country
and remained in close contact with him
during the remainder of his life.

In 1857 Mr. Berg married Anna Nickel.
daughter of Kajeden Nickel, of Orange.
This family came from Bavaria only a
few years previous. Mrs. Berg might be
considered an ideal wife. She encour-
aged and helped her husband in every
way possible, even going so far as to work
in her husband's factory after he had
established himself in business.

In 1862 Mr. Berg voluntarily enlisted
in the army. Previous to his enlisting he
was an employee in a hat factory owned
by a Mr. Stocker. It is said that for fear
his wife might object to his enlisting, he
did so without consulting her. He en-
listed in Company H. Twenty-sixth Regi-
ment. New Jersey Infantry, and served in
several momentous battles, the principal
one being the capture of Fredericksburg
Heights.

After nine months of faithful and un-
erring service in the army, he returned
home, and in 1804 he was in command of
sufficient capital to begin business for
himself and finally established the firm of
F. Berg & Company. His first attempt
in business for himself proved to be of

great success. He, during the early part
of his career as a hat manufacturer,
changed partners several times. By de-
grees he widened the scope of his activi-
ties until a large modernly equipped plant
was in constant operation, supplying the
demands of his many customers. Too
much emphasis cannot be laid upon the
fact that he possessed extremely sound
judgment and remarkable foresight. In-
tegrity might be called the keynote upon
which his character as a manufacturer
and as a citizen rested. As his sons be-
came of age they were taken in as mem-
bers of the firm and served their father as
true sons should, and at present they com-
pose the firm. After they obtained a firm
hand of the business, Mr. Berg withdrew
and in 1S89 established himself in the
coal and wood business. He continued
to be active in this business until a few
years before his death, which was on Feb-
ruary 20. 1908.

Mr. Berg bad children: Mary, died in
infancy; George, died in infancy; Fred,
born in i860, unmarried, now senior mem-
ber of F. Berg & Company ; Charles, born
1861. married Lucy May Miller and their
son is Charles Frederic, their daughter,
Anna Janet, died at the age of fourteen;
Emma, born 1863, married YYilliard J.
Nixon, their son is Frederick \Y. ; Henry.
born 1865, married Anna E. Leimer, their
sons are William H. and Henry: Amelia,
born 1870, married Paul G. Woodruff,
who died in 1912, their son is Frederick
P.; and George Christian, born 1873, mar-
ried Alice Archer.

Mr. Berg made three trips to his Father-
land. The first was in 1883. He merely
visited his relatives, and met his old
teacher. Professor Russler. The meeting
was a very touching one, for Professor
Russler was so highly pleased with seeing
Mr. Berg that the former wept. Mr.
Berg's second visit took place some years

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after his former one. He did not go alone
on this trip as he did on his first; but
rather his wife and daughter Emma ac-
companied him. A third visit was made
some years after his second one. This
last visit was a very short one.

Mr. Berg had other interests of impor-
tance and was closely identified with the
Second National Bank of Orange. He
was an austere Republican, but had little
inclination for public office, answering,
however, every demand made upon him,
if in the line of his duty as a citizen. For
five years he served as assessment com-
missioner and aided in civic betterment
to the utmost of his power. He was loyal
to the Lutheran church and never failed
in his duty to mankind.

MILLER, J. Wickliff,

Business Man.

There is no positive rule for achieving
success, and yet in the life of the success-
ful man there are always lessons which
might well be followed. The man who
gains prosperity is he who can see and
utilize the opportunities that come into
his path. The essential conditions of
human life are ever the same, the sur-
roundings of individuals differing but
slightly, and when one man passes others
on the highway of life and reaches the
goal of prosperity before those who
perhaps started out before him, it is be-
cause he has the power to use advantages
which properly encompassed his fellows
as well as himself, but were either not
seen, or neglected, by them. The quali-
ties of keen discrimination, sound judg-
ment, and executive ability, entered very
largely into the make-up of the late J.
Wickliff Miller, of Orange, New Jersey,
and were contributing elements to the
material success which came to him. He
was a descendant of one of the old fam-

ilies of the State, Millerstown being
named in their honor, this being the pres-
ent town of Union, Essex county, New
Jersey.

(I) John Miller, first known ancestor
of the line herein followed, settled first at
Lynn, Massachusetts, and later, in 1649,
at East Hampton, Long Island, where he
spent the remainder of his days. He mar-
ried a Miss Pierson, of Suffolk county,
New York, a daughter of the Rev. Abra-
ham Pierson, whose son Abram was first
president of Yale College, serving as such
from 1 701 to 1707. Abraham Pierson was
born in Massachusetts, 1641, died 1707,
scholar and educator. The sons of John
Miller emigrated to New Jersey and set-
tled in Elizabeth.

(II) William Miller, son of John and

(Pierson) Miller, was a resident of

Elizabeth, New Jersey, and died in Sep-
tember, 171 1. He married Hannah ,

who died in 171 1.

(III) Samuel Miller, son of William
and Hannah Miller, was born in 1674,
died March 14, 1759. He married Eliza-
beth Thompson, born in 1675, died No-
vember 13, 1747, daughter of Thomas and
Mary Thompson.

(IV) Enoch Miller, son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Thompson) Miller, was born
in 1708, died December 1, 1756. He mar-
ried Hannah Baker, born in 1712, daugh-
ter of Jacobus Baker (or Backer, as the
name was then spelled) and Margaret
(Stuyvesant) Baker, a half-sister of Gov-
ernor Peter Stuyvesant, of New York.

(V) Enoch (2) Miller, son of Enoch

(1) and Hannah (Baker) Miller, was born
in 1733, died January 10, 1813. He mar-
ried Eliza Ross, daughter of John Ross.

(VI) Enoch (3) Miller, son of Enoch

(2) and Eliza (Ross) Miller, was born
May 17, 1761, died April 21, 1841. He
served gallantly as a soldier from the
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the War of the Revolution. Pension was
given his widow. He married Keziah
Stites Ross, May 25, 1783. She was born
August 17, 1767, died December 1, 1851,
daughter of David Ross, who was one of
the jury that tried and convicted Morgan,
who shot Caldwell.

(VII) Josiah Miller, son of Enoch (3)
and Keziah Stites (Ross) Miller, was a
farmer by occupation. By diligence and
thrift he was enabled to provide a com-
fortable home for his family. He married
Lucy Ann Jeffries.

(VIII) J. Wickliff Miller, son of Josiah
and Lucy Ann (Jeffries) Miller, was born
in the town of Union, Essex county, New
Jersey, 1840, and died in 191 5, at Goshen,
New York, where he had gone in order
to restore his shattered health. He was a
very young child when his parents re-
moved to the State of Iowa, and in that
section of the country he acquired his
education and grew to manhood. After
some years he returned to the State in
which he was born and there settled in
Orange, which remained his place of resi-
dence until his death, the last fifteen years
of his life being spent at the home of his
only daughter, Mrs. Charles Berg. He
established himself in business as a hat-
ter, with which line of work he had been
practically identified for some time, and
followed this successfully until he retired
from active business responsibilities. He
was a man of quiet, gentle manner, earn-
est and steadfast in all he undertook, and
won the confidence of numerous friends
as well as that of his business associates.
In political opinion he was a Democrat,
and his religious membership was with
the Orange Baptist Church. His frater-
nal affiliation was with Corinthian Lodge,
No. 57, Free and Accepted Masons.

Mr. Miller married, in Orange, New
Jersey, Jane Burnett, born in Springfield,
Essex county, New Jersey, a daughter of

Aaron Halsey and Martha C. (Bradbury)
Burnett; she died seven years after her
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had chil-
dren : 1. Charles H., now a resident of
California; married Bertha Dolbier and
has a son, Herbert W. 2. Wilbur N., who
died September 12, 1916. 3. Lucy May,
who became the wife of Charles Berg and
they were the parents of a daughter, Anna
Janet, who died at the age of fourteen
years; and a son, Charles Frederic; Mr.
and Mrs. Berg reside at No. 215 High-
land avenue, Orange, New Jersey.

The Millers are connected by marriage
or otherwise with many of the old lead-
ing families of Elizabeth and Westfield,
New Jersey, and through the services in
the Revolutionary War of Enoch Miller
and Joseph Acken are eligible to member-
ship in the Revolutionary Societies.

FLANIGEN, William Alexander,

Merchant, Active in Community Affain.

This is a success-worshiping age. The
men we delight to honor are those who
have accomplished something real and
tangible, the significance of which we can
grasp with our five senses, the men who
have built up industries or raised them-
selves from positions of obscurity and
poverty to places of distinction and
wealth. We demand success and, as
though in response, we have progress in
all the departments of material accom-
plishment such as the Old World has
never before witnessed. Perhaps the
most characteristic of all the achieve-
ments of the day is that which has taken
place in the business world, in the line of
industrial and commercial development,
and it is the leaders of activity in this
direction that are our choicest heroes.
The late William Alexander Flanigen, a
distinguished merchant of Woodbury,
New Jersey, was one of those who rose

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by his own efforts to a place of promi-
nence in the community of which he was
a member, and whose career is as con-
spicuous for the high principles he main-
tained during its course as for the success
that attended it. It may be said of him
without exaggeration that he was a pro-
gressive, virile American citizen of the
self-made type, thoroughly in harmony
with the spirit of this modern age and
who, in compassing his own success, per-
formed a corresponding service for the
community.

William Alexander Flanigen was a na-
tive of this country, born at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, July 3, 1842. He was, how-
ever, of Irish descent and inherited the
many virtues and marked talents of the
race. He was the son of William Con-
way and Jane (Adams) Flanigen, old and
highly respected residents of the city of
Philadelphia, where Mr. Flanigen, St.,
conducted a successful dry goods house
for many years. The first half of Mr.
Flanigen's life was spent in the city of
his birth, and it was there that his entire
business career was carried on, though
he made his home during the latter years
of his life in Woodbury, New Jersey. He
received his education at the public
schools of Philadelphia, and would have
graduated from the high school had it not
been that ill health compelled him to
withdraw from the course just before the
close of the year. Ill health, indeed,
dogged him not a little in his youth and
his schooling was not the only thing that
was curtailed by it. At the opening of
the Civil War, he at once offered his serv-
ices to the United States government and
enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment, but
his health was adjudged not sufficiently
robust and he was discharged. His father,
with a parent's usual thought, desired
that the lad should follow in his steps and
engage in the dry goods business, and

with that end in view apprenticed him to
a dry goods merchant in Philadelphia for
the munificent wage of fifty dollars a
year. The lad did not, however, take to
the idea at all kindly, it being his desire
to take up the grocery business instead,
and being of an exceptionally determined
and persistent nature, he finally over-
came his father's objections. These were
extremely strong, however, and although
he finally allowed his son to have his own
way in the matter, it was with many
prognostications of failure that the old
gentleman gave his consent. However,
the young man did not lose heart, but
set out with enthusiasm to seek a posi-
tion. This was no such difficult matter
for the bright, intelligent boy, and he was
soon installed in a retail grocery store in
the city, where he made himself most
valuable to his employers. He developed
a remarkable talent for accounts and
while still little more than a youth became
well known as an expert. With thip
ability, he found it no great matter to
gain advancement in the store where he
happened to be employed or to find new
and better positions elsewhere. He
worked in a number of establishments,
among others with the large wholesale
firm of Janney & Andrews with the title
of "head bookkeeper and financier." and
it was while in this employ that his ac-
counting became so well known that he
was called upon by outside concerns to
straighten their accounts and do the gen-
eral work that is now done by expert ac-
countants. His progress was very rapid
from this time on, and in 1874 he left
Janney & Andrews to go with Thomas
Roberts & Company, also wholesale
grocers. He began his association with
this concern in the same capacity as that
in which he had worked for Janney &
Andrews, but before long he was taken
into the firm as a partner. This was in

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the year 1875 and for five years thereafter
he had a share in the profits of this large
and lucrative business. In 1880, however,
he severed his connection with this com-
pany, and in partnership with Robert
Comly founded the firm of Comly &
Flanigen, and engaged in a wholesale
grocery commission business, and later
the firm of Comly, Flanigen & Company
was formed. Both these companies flour-
ished greatly and Mr. Flanigen continued
a partner in both until the time of his
death. He was always greatly interested
in the welfare of the grocery business in
a general sense and did much work to
advance its interests in connection with
his membership in the Grocers and Im-
porters Exchange. He was also a mem-
ber of the Philadelphia Bourse, and a
prominent figure in the business world
of the city generally.

But it was not only in the business
world that Mr. Flanigen was a conspicu-
ous figure. He was a man of far too wide
an outlook on life, of too broad sym-
pathies to permit him to rest content with
a career devoted wholly to business. He
was, on the contrary, deeply interested in
many aspects of life, and concerned him-
self for the general good of the commu-
nity. He was active in the matter of pre-
serving the forests of the country and the
American Forestry Association. Art and
science both offered him delightful sub-
jects for study and recreation and he be-
longed to a number of associations which
existed for their cultivation Among these
should be named the Fairmount Park Art
Association, the Franklin Institute of the
State of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia
Zoological Society and the American
Civic Association.

The Flanigen family, of which Mr.
Flanigen was so distinguished a member,
had its origin in the North of Ireland,
and was of that extremely enterprising

Irish Protestant class that have made so
great an industrial region of the upper
portion of the island. On his mother's
side he was of Scotch descent, his mater-
nal grandmother, Mary Robertson, hav-
ing been adopted and brought as a child
to America by her aunt, the widow of
Colonel Bryce, one of General Washing-
ton's aides in the Revolution. Mary
Robertson married Robert Adams, a car-
penter and builder of Philadelphia. Mr.
Flanigen was a Presbyterian in his re-
ligious convictions, and during his resi-
dence in Philadelphia attended the Cal-
vary Church. After corning to Woodbury
to live he joined the Presbyterian church
there and until his death was active in its
interests. For eighteen years, from 1879
to [897, he was the choirmaster there and
greatly enjoyed the work which brought
him into constant contact with an art
greatly beloved by him. He was a stanch
Republican in his political views all his
life.

Mr. Flanigen was married, on May 14.
1884, to Julia Pierce Herbert, a daughter
of Henry and Cornelia (McMaster) Her-
bert. Mr. Herbert was a Xew Englander
of French Huguenot stock who in the
latter years of his life moved to Pennsyl-
vania and resided upon a farm in the
vicinity of Frankford. Pennsylvania. He
was a man of considerable means and
greatly interested in municipal and edu-
cational matters. He died in 1856, and in
1873 ms family moved to Woodbury, New
Jersey, where Mr. Flanigen met his future
wife, and it was after their marriage that
the former came to Woodbury to reside.
To Mr. and Mrs. Flanigen were born four
children: Jessy, William Herbert, Ruth
and Donald.

The death of Mr. Flanigen occurred on

April 9. 1915, and was felt as a very real

loss by the entire community. It is al-

wavs difficult, if not impossible, to esti-

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mate the effect upon their environment
of such characters as that of Mr. Flani-
gen, characters the influence of which de-
pends not so much on actual deeds they
do, as upon the subtle force which com-
municates itself unseen to all about from
a strong and gracious personality. But
although any actual gauge is difficult we
are surely justified in valuing such influ-
ence very highly. In Mr. Flanigen's case
his tastes and instincts were blended in so
fortunate an admixture as to seem pre-
destined for the gain and redistribution of
knowledge. It would, perhaps, be diffi-
cult to say whether art with its more
direct emotional appeal, or science, whose
voice is for the intellect, ranked higher in
his tastes, but certain it is that he loved
both and was able to gratify his craving
for both extensively. Yet love them as
he did, he never allowed them to interfere
with the practical duties of life nor with
the normal degree of intercourse with his
fellows so essential to healthy, whole-
some human life. Indeed he never en-
joyed himself more thoroughly than when
the dispenser and recipient of those
amenities that a man knows only in his
own home and in the bosom of his own
family. It thus came about that the
knowledge and the enlightenment that he
gained in his excursions into the realms
of experience and of books was again
given out to those fortunate enough to
meet him in an intimate relationship, and
thus directly and indirectly influenced
the community in the direction of refine-
ment of taste and general culture. His
taste in reading led him naturally to
many subjects, literary and historic, and
in all of these he was well versed. How
pure and well-judged, how discriminating
were these tastes is well exemplified in
his home, which reflects these qualities in
every detail. His spirit was essentially
youthful and, to the end of his life, he

found in the young most congenial com-
panions. If it is difficult to estimate ac-
curately the influence for good of such a
man, it is at least easy to set it very high.

HALL, Isaac A.,

Man of Affairs. Philanthropist.

The name of Hall ranks very high in
the commercial history of Northern New
Jersey, particularly in the silk industry of
America. In 1857, Albert Hall, the father
of Isaac A. Hall, established in the city of
Paterson, New Jersey, what was practi-
cally a new industry in the United States,
i. e., the manufacture of reeds and harness
for silk weaving. He built up and suc-
cessfully managed a very large business,
continuing actively in it until his death,
when his son, Isaac A. Hall, took over
the active management of the business.
From that time it took rank among the
leading industries of New Jersey. Isaac
A. Hall expanded that business, skillfully
managed it, and constantly enlarged it,
until the business became a leader in its
line.

His activities covered the planning and
erection of large mills for industrial pur-
poses and uses, directorships in large and
influential corporations, service to his
city and State in public capacities of
great importance, and service as director
of numerous charitable institutions and
enterprises. He was likewise active in
a social and fraternal way. Repeated
efforts were made to have Mr. Hall enter
political life, but he absolutely refused to
entertain any idea of political perferment,
except when induced to serve in some
public capacity upon some State commis-
sions. Continued and persistent efforts
were made to induce him to leave Pater-
son and settle at Allentown, Pennsylva-
nia, where, after the State of Pennsyl-
vania had begun to attract silk manufac-

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turers, he had established large indus-
tries. He continued his residence in the
city of Paterson, feeling that ties of
friendship held him there which far out-
weighed any other consideration. He
was a social leader in the city, and a
prominent member of all of the clubs in
and around the vicinity of the city of
Paterson and Northern New Jersey. His
frank open manner, well-known integrity
and honor in all his business dealings,
proved him the unusual man and made
his life an inspiration to others.

Isaac A. Hall was born in Paterson,
New Jersey, October 9, i860, and died at
Roosevelt Hospital, New York, Novem-
ber 3, 1915, where he had been taken to
undergo treatment. The family came
from Staleybridge, England, in the month
of September, 1857, and located in the
city of Paterson, New Jersey. Albert
Hall was very familiar with English mill
supplies, and after residing in the city of
Paterson for a period of three years, de-
cided to undertake the manufacture of
reeds and harness for silk weaving. At
that time these were not manufactured in
America, but extensively imported. He
began in a modest way, and through in-
dustry became successful, continuing his
business until his death, August 4, 1870.
His son, Isaac A. Hall, was then but ten
years of age.

Isaac A. Hall continued his course in
the public schools of Paterson until
graduation. For a time after graduation,
he took up a business and commercial
course at Latimer's Business College. He
loved the sea, and yielding to his impulse
he took a course upon a training ship.
His mother sent him to the training ship
"Minnehaha," then after a time he was
transferred to the frigate "Constitution,"
upon which ship he completed his term of
service. In the meantime the business
founded by his father had been continued,

and upon completion of his career at sea
the young man became actively connected
with it, and when he attained his majority
he was taken into the firm. He immedi-
ately showed such business acumen and
unusual executive ability that in a few
years the others had retired and Isaac A.
Hall assumed and took over the entire
business. In the month of January, 1883,
he re-organized the business, assuming
the trade name of I. A. Halt & Company,
and immediately undertook operations on
a very extensive scale. At about that
time the company's factory at No. 18
Division street (now Hamilton avenue),
Paterson, New Jersey, was, with its en-
tire contents, totally destroyed by fire.
Very little insurance had been carried
upon the business, consequently the loss
was a severe one. Rising promptly to the
emergency, Mr. Hall and his mother
shortly resumed active operations at the
branch, No. no Straight street. The
partnership with his mother continued
until May 6, 1886, when Mr. Hall took
over by purchase the interests of his
mother, and the business became his sole
property. At once larger quarters were
obtained in West street, where the busi-
ness was continued until 1888, at which
time he had completed a large plant on
Hamilton avenue, in which plant until
his death he conducted the business of
I. A. Hall & Company. The specialties
which his father had first manufactured
in America, together with general
weavers' supplies, vast quantities of
which were used in weaving in Paterson
mills, continued to be manufactured by
Mr. Hall in his new plant, and the steady
and insistent demand for them furnished
a very large shipping business. This
demand was not entirely a domestic de-
mand. The character and quality of the
merchandise and supplies manufactured
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Valuable patents were acquired, and
many of the supplies made at his factory
could not be obtained elsewhere. He
employed several hundred hands. In ad-
dition to the manufacture and sale of his
own products, he was sales agent for
large French and English mills. The
business was of such magnitude that it
required most of the time and energy of
Mr. Hall. He was a man of splendid fore-
sight and anticipating the needs of Pater-
son to accommodate small manufacturers
in the silk and other textile industries,
who were unable to build their plants, he
erected large mills to meet this demand,
purchased large tracts of land on Fulton
and other streets in the territory known
as Dean's Hill, in the city of Paterson,
and in 1898 he erected for industrial pur-
poses the first Hall mill. The instant
success of this venture caused him to
duplicate that mill, by the erection on the
adjoining property of another of the same
size and type. These mills instantly be-
came popular and have been constantly
filled with high class tenants. His suc-
cess in this line in Paterson led him to
duplicate it in the city of Allentown,
Pennsylvania, where his mills were much
sought after by the best tenants and his
success there was immediate. Time vin-
dicated the keenness of his business judg-
ment and the clearness of his foresight.
The expansion of his business both in the
city of Paterson and the city of Allen-
town continued, and much of his time
had to be spent in the city of Allentown,
where he was as well and favorably
known as he was in Northern New Jer-
sey. Aside from these business activities
he served as president of an extensive
corporation, manufacturing broad silks in
the city of Philadelphia, was president of
the Union Transit Company, operating a
line of automobiles between Paterson,
New Jersey, and Ridgewood, New Jer-

sey ; was vice-president of the Eagle Fire
Insurance Company of Newark, New Jer-
sey ; was an organizer, vice-president
and one of the largest stockholders of
the German American Trust Company,
one of Paterson's leading banking insti-
tutions ; was vice-president of the Title
Guarantee Land Company ; a director in
the Passaic Building Association, and
numerous other land companies; a direc-
tor of the Clifton Trust Company, the
Nassau and Suffolk Lighting Company of
Long Island; The Fourth Ward Market
Association, and many other interests too
numerous to be enumerated herein.

Despite his disinclination for political
honors, Mr. Hall served as commissioner
of public instruction, as president of the
park commission of the city of Paterson,
and as chairman of the most important
committees in those commissions. During
the administration of John Franklin Fort,
as Governor of New Jersey, he served as
one of the New Jersey commissioners to
the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, giving
most valuable advice and service to the
commission. He was a director in the
Young Men's Christian Association, and
a member of the advisory board of the
Paterson General Hospital of Paterson,
New Jersey, and the Nathan and Miriam
Barnert Memorial Hospital of Paterson,
New Jersey, was one of the most philan-
thropic citizens that Paterson ever had.
His charities, however, were quiet and
unostentatious, so that few knew of their
magnitude. He was keenly interested in
boys and young men and particularly in
the newsboys of his native city, for whose
welfare and advancement he did much.
For years he was the host at a Christmas
dinner at which all the newsboys and
their friends were his guests, and this
deserving charity he maintained each
Christmas up to the time of his death.
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the funeral obsequies was contributed by
the newsboys, each of whom gave his
contribution from his scanty income.

Mr. Hall held all degrees in Masonry,
both Scottish and York Kite up to and
including the thirty-second. For a time
he was an active officer in Ivanhoe Lodge,
No. 88, Free and Accepted Masons; he
was also one of the most prominent mem-
bers of Mecca Temple, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of New York City. Like-
wise, he was a member of the Junior
Order of American Mechanics, and the
most prominent member of Paterson
Lodge, Xo. '>o. Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In his daily life, he ex-
emplified fully the best principles and
tenets of these orders. His activity and
interest in the order of Elks was most
pronounced. Through his most generous
liberality, the Paterson Lodge was able
to erect one of the finest club houses to
be found in the East. His assistance to
this home on a substantial basis was very
practical and his support of it was very
liberal, and his bequests at the time of his
death most generous, running into thou-
sands of dollars. He was prominent in
all associations of silk manufacturers,
most particularly in the Silk Association
of Paterson, and the Silk Association of
America. He was passionately devoted
to sports, both outdoor and indoor. He
took an active interest in the North Jer-
sey Driving and Agricultural Association,
the Paterson Cricket Club, the Hibernia
Cowling Club, the North Jersey Automo-
bile Association, The North Jersey Coun-
try Club and the Areola Country Club.
Other club connections were the Lake
Hopatcong Club, the Livingston Club at
Allentown, Pennsylvania, and while in
the City of New York he took active in-
terest and was a member of the Lotus
and the Knickerbocker clubs. For a num-
ber of years he was a staff officer upon

the staff of Brigadier-General Edwin W.
Mine, commanding the Second Brigade,
New Jersey National Guard, ranking as
major. He loved horseback riding and
al\vay> kept for immediate use one or two
very fine mounts.

Mr. Hall's first wife, who was Minnie
(Shaw) Hall, died in 1905. He is sur-
vived by his second wife, Vaugn (Smith)
Hall, formerly of Weatherford, Texas,
now residing at the family home, No. 167
Hamilton avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.
Ik- was a member and liberal supporter
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Pater-
son, Xew Jersey.

In the death of Mr. Hall, Paterson lost
one of its most prominent and beloved
sons. For several years prior to his death
he had not been in the best of health. The
strain of constant business activity and
the pressure and solution of numerous
and perplexing business problems finally
proved too much. His health gave way
under the strain, and he was compelled to
resort to the best efforts of specialists to
prolong his life. His place in the affec-
tions of the multitude comprising the cos-
mopolitan population of the city of Pater-
son was one that few could attain. He
was always foremost in civic service. The
question uppermost in his mind always
was what was for the best interests of his
native city. His popularity through his
social and congenial disposition was un-
bounded. His ability as an honorable and
shrewd business man, ever willing to give
service and advice to others, caused his
name to become a household word in his
native city. The funeral obsequies were
conducted from St. Paul's Episcopal
Church. Paterson, New Jersey, by the
rector. Rev. David Stuart Hamilton, D.
D., and interment was made in a magnifi-
cent mausoleum erected upon the com-
manding site of the Hall plot in the Cedar
Lawn Cemetery.

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His estate showed a valuation of more
than million and a half dollars, consisting
of valuable mills, manufacturing plants,
and valuable stocks and bonds. The prin-
cipal beneficiary under his will was his
widow, Vaugn (Smith) Hall. Other
beneficiaries, aside from his many public
bequests, were his two sisters, Mrs. Alice
Van Gieson, Mrs. Sarah Morehead, and
a brother, Thomas W. Hall, all of whom
reside in the city of Paterson.

The obituaries published in all the
papers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York City at the time of Mr. Hall's
death paid deserving and beautiful tribute
to his memory. One of the best illustra-
tions of this is to be found in the follow-
ing extract taken from the "Paterson
Press" of November 4, 191 5:

A STRONG PILLAR FALLEN.

In the death of Isaac A. Hall, Paterson has
lost one of the strongest pillars of its citizen-
ship. It may be truthfully said that few men who
have been active in the developmental process of
this community for the past quarter of a century
have borne a more conspicuous, influential and
honorable part than the one whose activities
have been suddenly stilled by the cold hand of
death, while he was still in the zenith of his re-
markable powers.

It may with equal truth be said that no man
ever lived in our city who was better loved by
all classes and conditions of its people than
Major Hall. Had he been ambitious for public
office there is none within their gift he could
not have had. But, while he was constantly
ready to act as a servant of the people when he
was called upon, and had often filled responsible
public stations always with exemplary fidelity and
ability, and while he was one of the most zealous
and devoted champions of the political party of
which he was a life-long adherent — he stead-
fastly declined the numerous appeals which were
from time to time made to him to accept nomi-
nations for high offices when such acceptance
would have meant sure election.

But Major Hall with all his energy and initi-
ative was the incarnation of modesty and pre-
ferred to confine his activities to a business
career and his interest outside of that to the

noble cause of charity and philanthropy. No
larger-minded or more generous soul ever
graced this city than that which dwelt in the
bosom of Isaac A. Hall. And none who have
departed this life bearing with them the bene-
dictions of an entire city will live longer in the
memories of the people of Paterson than the
one whom we are now compelled to see carried
to his final rest.

KILBURN, Charles Fleming,

Estimable Citizen.

In 1632, at Wood Ditton, Cambridge-
shire, England, Thomas Kilburn, the
founder of the American Kilborne family
(also Kilbourn, Kilborne, Kilbon), was
warden of St. Mary's parish church. In
1635, at the age of fifty-five, with his wife
Frances and five children, he sailed for
America in the ship "Increase," and,
reaching this country, made settlement
at Wethersfield, Connecticut. Ebenezer
Kilbourn, of the fourth generation, set-
tled in Morris county, New Jersey, where
his son, Gershom Kilborn, was born in
1732. Gershom settled in Orange, Essex
county, New Jersey, where his son, Jabez
Davis Kilburn, was born in 1773 he was
the grandfather of Charles Fleming Kil-
burn.

Says an English historian : "The dis-
covery of the remains of Roman walls
and pavements in the vicinity of Kilburn
establishes the fact that the region was
inhabited long before the Norman con-
quest. As the word Kilburn is evidently
of Anglo-Saxon origin, it was probably
first given as a name to the locality by
the Saxon invaders of the Sixth century."
The name of Kilbourn, "Cold Stream," is
of Anglo-Saxon origin, compounded of
"Kil" (a corruption of "cald" or "caeld,"
cold), and the old English word "bourn,"
a stream, being applied first to a stream,
then to a village situated on the stream,
and then to a family derived from the
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to have been at the will of the holder, but
the Newark branch use the form Kilburn.

The English family bore arms: Argent,
a chevron azure, between three bald coots
close sable, beaked and legged gules.
Crest: A bald coot sable beaked and
legged gules. Motto: Vincit Veritas.

Thomas Kilborne, the common ances-
tor, was born in the parish of Wood Dit-
ton, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1578,
baptized May 8, 1578, died in Wethers-
field, Connecticut, prior to 1639. He was
a member of the Church of England, and
served the parish as church warden in

1632. He married Frances , who

bore him eight children, five of whom
accompanied their parents to America:
Margaret, aged twenty-three ; Lydia,
twenty-two ; Marie, sixteen ; Frances,
twelve ; John, ten. At the time of the
sailing, April 15, 1635, Thomas Kilborne
was fifty-five years of age, his wife Fran-
ces fifty. They came in the ship "In-
crease," Robert Lea, master, and settled
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where the
father died not long afterward. His wife
Frances survived him until 1650, and at
her death left a will disposing of an estate
inventoried at £350, including "the house
and home lot and twelve acres in the
Great Meadow," also "four acres in the
West field, two in beaver meadow, and
four in mile meadow," and "her land be-
yond the river."

Children of Thomas and Frances Kil-
borne: 1. Margaret Kilborne, born in
Wood Ditton, England, 1607; came with
her parents to America in 1635 ; married
Richard Law, a prominent citizen of
Wethersfield and Stamford. 2. Thomas
Kilborne, baptized November 30, 1609;
he came to America in 1634, in the ship
"Elizabeth," with his wife Elizabeth, set-
tling at Ipswich, but as there is no record
of his descendants it is supposed that he
returned to England. 3. George Kilborne,

baptized February 12, 1612; was a resi-
dent of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1638,
and in 1640 was admitted a freeman of
Rowley ; he married Elizabeth. 4. Eliza-
beth Kilborne, baptized May 12, 1614;
did not come to America. 5. Lydia Kil-
borne, baptized July 14, 1616; came to
America with her parents ; married Rob-
ert Howard, of Windsor, Connecticut. 6.
Mary, born 1619; came with her parents
in 1635 ; married John Root, an early set-
tler of Farmington, Connecticut, where
both were members of the church in 1679.
7. Frances Kilborne, baptized September
4, 1621 ; came with the family in 1635;
married Thomas Ufford (or Uffoot) of
Stratford, Connecticut. 8. Sergeant John
Kilborne, of further mention.

Sergeant John Kilborne was baptized
at Wood Ditton, England, September 29,
1624, and died in Wethersfield, Connecti-
cut, April 9, 1703. He came with his par-
ents in the "Increase" in 1635, and settled
with them in Wethersfield, on the west
side of the Connecticut river, six miles
below the present city of Hartford. For
nearly forty years he was a conspicuous
figure in the town, holding the office of
collector, lister, constable, selectman and
deputy to the General Court, and at the
May session of that body in 1662 he was
appointed a member of the Colonial
Grand Jury. In May, 1657, he was con-
firmed by the General Court "to be Ser-
geant at Wethersfield," a post he held for
eighteen years, resigning in October, 1676.
He was often a grand juror of Hartford
county, and in May, 1677, was on the
"Jury of Life and Death." Sergeant Kil-
bourn (as he wrote his name in his will)

married, in 1650, Naomi , who died

October 1, 1659, leaving children: John
Thomas and Naomi. He married (sec-
ond) Sarah, daughter of John Bronson,
who bore him children : Ebenezer, of fur-
ther mention ; Sarah, George, Mary, Jo-

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seph and Abraham. The line of descent
is through Ebenezer, eldest son of Ser-
geant John by his second wife.

Ebenezer Kilbourn was born in Glaston-
bury, Connecticut, March 10, 1679 died in
Morris county, New Jersey, about 1732.
He married, June 1, 1698, Sarah Fox, who
died October 18, 1714, the mother of ten
children : Susannah, Ebenezer, Richard,
Sarah, Josiah, Elizabeth, Gideon, Amos,
Naomi and David Kilbourn. He married
(second) May 14, 1715, Elizabeth Davis,
of Hartford, by whom he had three sons,
all born in Morris county, New Jersey :
James, Thomas, and Gershom, of further
mention.

Gershom Kilborn was born in Morris
county, New Jersey, February 7, 1732,
died in Orange, New Jersey, April 26,
1813. He married (first) Phebe Lindsley,
and had children : Moses Kilborn, a sol-
dier of the Revolution ; Samuel, died aged
seventeen years ; Abner, died aged four-
teen years. He married (second) Mrs.
Eunice Harrison Conger, and had four
children: Elizabeth, died young; Jabez
Davis, of further mention ; Daniel, died
young; Captain Daniel, a captain in the
War of 1812.

Jabez Davis Kilburn was born in Or-
ange, New Jersey, October 31, 1773, and
died there September 23, 1849. He be-
came a prominent citizen of Orange, and
a large landowner. He held the offices of
moderator, judge of election, and com-
missioner of appeals. He was a vice-
president of the county convention which
met in Newark, Tuesday, April 3, 1844,
and proposed Theodore Frelinghuysen as
a candidate for Vice-President of the
United States, and was president of a
mass meeting of citizens in Newark the
following September to further his nomi-
nation. He married Esther Baldwin, and
had children: Elizabeth, died in infancy;
Thomas Daniels, of further mention ;

Isaac Baldwin, died unmarried ; Charles
Lalliet, died in Newark, June 23, 1837;
Mary, died in childhood; Mary (2), died
in Orange, October 22, 1838.

Thomas Daniels Kilburn was born in
Orange, New Jersey, October 9, 1796, and
died February 15, 1882. He was a promi-
nent citizen, farmer and landowner, the
old Kilburn farm lying along South Or-
ange avenue, now being known as the
Tuxedo Park tract. He served the town
as overseer of highways and commis-
sioner of appeals ; took a deep interest in
the welfare of his community, and to his
memory stands Kilburn Memorial Pres-
byterian Church at South Orange ave-
nue and Norwood street, founded by his
two daughters, Margaretta D. and Clara
C. Kilburn. He married, October 7, 1823,
Abby Condit, born March 29, 1804, died
April 26, 1880. Children : Esther B., mar-
ried Ira Taylor, of South Orange ; Isaac
B., married Mary E. Dodd, and died July
30, 1879; Hannah L., married Amzi S.
Dodd; Margaretta D. ; Mary E. ; Ira
C, married Kate P. Alexander; Charles
Fleming, of further mention, and Clara C.

Charles Fleming Kilburn, of the eighth
generation, youngest son of Thomas Dan-
iels and Abby (Condit) Kilburn, was born
at the Kilburn homestead, South Orange,
New Jersey, August 28, 1844, and died in
Newark, New Jersey, at St. Barnabas
Hospital, June 27, 1915, and is buried in
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark. He
attended the public schools of South Or-
ange until fifteen years of age, and then
was sent to boarding school at Ferguson-
ville, Delaware county, New York, where
he completed his studies. He was asso-
ciated with his brother, Isaac B. Kilburn,
in the manufacture of bent wood until the
latter's death in 1879, then conducted the
business alone until 1885. From that time
forward he devoted himself to the man-
agement of the estates of his father and
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brother and to his own private interests.
He was well known in real estate and
business circles, and until within a year
or two of his death maintained an office
at 88 Mechanic street, Newark.

He was identified with the management
of the old Waverly State Fair, was a
member of the New Jersey Road Horse
Association, and did a great deal to in-
crease the usefulness of that organization.
He was one of the original members of
the board of governors of the Essex Club,
was one of the first members of the Essex
County Country Club and of the Bal-
tusrol Club, an honorary member of the
Essex Troop, and belonged to the Repub-
lican Club of New York City. He was a
devoted member of the South Park Pres-
byterian Church, which he served as trus-
tee, and in political faith was a Repub-
lican. He was a man highly esteemed
for his sterling qualities of mind and
heart, possessed a wealth of friends, and
left behind him an honored name.

Mr. Kilburn married, in South Orange,
January 15, 1902, Grace Currier, who sur-
vives him, daughter of Cyrus Chase and
Harriet (Anderson) Currier. Children:
Abby Condit Kilburn, born December 8,
1902; Gertrude Currier Kilburn, June 10,
1904: Charles Fleming (2nd) Kilburn,
born February 22, 1906; Thomas Daniels
Kilburn, born July 23, 1907.

(The Condit Line).

Abby (Condit) Kilburn. mother of
Charles Fleming Kilburn, was a descend-
ant of John Cunditt, who is first of men-
tion in this country in 1678. He pur-
chased lands "in the bounds of the town
of Newark," Essex county, New Jersey,
in 1689, from Richard Hore, and again in
1691 from Lawrence. In both transfers
his name is spelled Condit, but in his will
it is written "Cunditt." He is supposed
to have been of English descent, but may
have been a Welshman. He married in

Great Britain, but was a widower when
he came to America in 167S, accompanied
by his son Peter, He settled in Newark.
New Jersey, and there married a second
wife, Deborah, who bore him a son John,
who died a minor. John Cunditt died in
I7I3and left a will now on file in the office
uf the Secretary of State at Trenton, New
Jersey. In it he devises "land and
meadows" to "My Dearly Beloved Wife
Deborah Cunditt," in Newark and else-
where, in trust for their son John, but to
Peter, his eldest son, very little, he prob-
ably having had his share.

Peter Condit, son of John Cunditt by
his first wife, came with his father to
Newark, New Jersey, and there died in
1714, surviving his father but one year.
His will on file in Trenton, dated Febru-
ary 7, 1713, devises land and meadows in
"Newark and elsewhere" to his sons, and
to his daughter Mary, "twelve pounds
money;" to his wife Mary, whom he made
sole executrix, all his personal estate not
otherwise disposed of. and a third inter-
est in his real estate "during her widow-
hood." To his son Samuel he gave a
"Weavers Loom commonly called Sam-
uels Loom with all ye Tackling belong-
ing to it." This would indicate that both
father and son were weavers by trade.
Peter Condit married, in 1695, Mary,
daughter of John Harrison, a woman of
strong character who reared her children
most religiously. She was a descendant
of Richard Harrison, who came from
Cheshire, England, and died at Branford,
Connecticut, October 25, 1653. The.v had
six sons: Samuel, Peter, John, Nathaniel.
Philip and Isaac; and a daughter. Mary.
Three of these sons— John, Nathaniel and
Isaac— settled at the foot of the Orange
mountains; Samuel, the eldest, settled
between the First and Second mountains;
Peter and Philip settled in Morristown,
New Jersey.

Samuel Condit, son of Peter and Mary

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(Harrison) Condit, was born at Newark,
New Jersey, December 6, 1696, and died
July 18, 1777, his gravestone in the Or-
ange burying ground bearing the name
"Samuel Conduit," with the date of his
death. In 1720 he bought land between
the Orange mountains, presumably from
the Indians, as there is no former record
of ownership. He gave during his life-
time to each of his five sons, fifty acres of
the home farm, and on each lot erected a
house, reserving for himself the home-
stead with about seventy acres. To each
of his sons he gave a family Bible, and
left them a record of a pious life. He
married (first) in 1722, Mary Dodd, born
November 8, 1698, died May 25, 1755. He
married (second) in 1756, Mary Xutman,
widow of Amos Williams, who died Feb-
ruary 18, 1777. Both wives are buried
near him in Orange burying ground, with
many others of the Condit name. By his
first marriage, Samuel Condit had issue :
Daniel, of further mention ; Jotham, Sam-
uel, Martha, David and Jonathan.

Daniel Condit, eldest son of Samuel
Condit and his first wife, Mary Dodd, was
born December 27, 1723, and died Novenv
ber 14, 1785. He was a farmer, occupy-
ing the land given him by his father be-
tween the First and Second Orange moun-
tains. He was a soldier of the Revolu-
tion, serving as a private in the First Bat-
talion, second establishment of New Jer-
sey militia. Like his forefathers, he was
a man of pious life, and a deacon of the
Presbyterian church. He married Ruth
Williams, born December 29, 1723, died
November 23, 1807, daughter of Gershom
and Hannah (Lampson) Williams, son of
Matthew and grandson of Matthew Wil-
liams, a native of Wales, Great Britain,
who came to America about 1630 and set-
tled in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Daniel
and Ruth Condit had children : Adonijah ;
Eunice, married Nathaniel Ogden ; Mar-
tha, married Major Aaron Harrison;

Mary, married Philip Condit, of Morris-
town, New Jersey; Joel, a soldier of the
Revolution ; Samuel, of further mention ;
Ira, a minister of the Dutch Reformed
church, vice-president and professor of
Rutgers College ; Jemima, died in infancy.
Samuel Condit, seventh child of Daniel
and Ruth (Williams) Condit, was born
at the homestead in the Orange Moun-
tains. August 6, 1 761, and died April,
1819. After his marriage he removed to
the east side of the Orange Mountains, at
what was long known as "Tory Corner."
He followed farming as an occupation,
and was a devout Christian, highly es-
teemed. He served as private in the Rev-
olutionary army, although little more than
a boy in years. He married, in 1785, Han-
nah Harrison, born 1764, died 1855, daugh-
ter of Ichabod and Sarah (Williams)
Harrison, granddaughter of Nathaniel
Harrison, son of Joseph Harrison, son of
Sergeant Richard Harrison, who came to
Newark. New Jersey, with the Connecti-
cut colony in 1667 or 1668, son of Rich-
ard Harrison, of Branford, Connecticut.
Samuel and Hannah Condit had chil-
dren : Sarah, married Ichabod Losey ;
Jemima (2nd), married Samuel Morris
Dodd; Eunice, married John Munn ; Har-
riet, married (first) Yiner Van Zant
Jones, (second) Deacon Henry Pierson ;
Samuel, married Phebe Peck ; Mary, mar-
ried Stephen Dodd ; Abby, of further
mention; Clara, married Thomas W.
Munn ; Ira H., married Phebe Mulford ;
Ichabod, died in infancy.

Abby Condit, eighth child of Samuel
and Hannah (Harrison) Condit, was born
at the home farm at "Tory Corner," Essex
county. New Jersey, March 29, 1804, and
died at the Kilburn farm on South Orange
avenue, South Orange, New Jersey, April
26, 1880. She married, October 7, 1823,
Thomas Daniels Kilburn (see Kilburn).
They were the parents of Charles Flem-
ing Kilburn.
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BALBACH, Edward,

Founder of Important Industry.

There are very few names more promi-
nently associated with the industrial de-
velopment of Newark. New Jersey, than
that of Balbach, two generations of which

family, father and son. have been respon-
sible for the introduction and growth
there of the great business connected with
the smelting and refining of precious
metals for which that city is famous. The
immense mills founded by F.dward Bal-
bach, Sr., and brought to their present
proportions by both father and son, are
one of the two largest in the world, and
the methods of earning on the work, de-
vised and first put into practice there
through the genius of the two men. are
those now universally employed.

The Balbach arms are: Arms — Parti
per fesse or and vert, the upper part
charged with three palm branches, placed
one above the other, vert. The lower part
parti per bend wavy, argent. Crest — A
young man issuant, habited parti per fesse
or and vert, collared of the last, cap vert,
holding in each hand a palm branch vert.

Edward Balbach was horn March 19,
1804, in the city of Carlsruhe, Baden, Ger-
many, and passed the years of childhood
and early youth in the place of his birth,
lie was typical of the best class of his
race, showing in his own character the
strong virtues and abilities that have
given his countrymen the place they
occupy in the world to-day, the virtues
and abilities that, transplanted into this
country, have formed one of the most
valuable elements in the development of
our citizenship. I lis childhood and youth,
too, were typical, and he went through
the same hard but wholesome training
customary in that day and country. His
education was received at the local Volke-
schule. and he showed marked intelli-

gence and perseverance as a student, and
a special aptness and fondness for the
subject of chemistry. His father was
quite willing for him to gratify so prac-
tical a taste, and every opportunity was
given him, lad though he was, to perfect
himself in the subject. Of these he
availed himself, and as he grew older, so
also did his taste grow, so that when he
eventually came to an age to chose a
career in life, he determined that it should
be something of a kind in which he could
exercise his knowledge. He finally de-
cided upon the refining of precious metals.
an occupation for which he was especially
fitted by his studies. The knowdedge of
chemistry in those days was decidedly
rudimentary, of course, compared with
that of to-day, and especially was this
true in what might be called the depart-
ment of applied chemistry, the wonderful
wave of inventive activity which char-
acterized the nineteenth century having
only just begun, so that much of what
was known was of a purely theoretic
value, and its practical significance as yet
unrealized. What practical knowledge
existed in his line at the time, Mr. Bal-
bach possessed, however, and also that
quality of originality which makes the
best use of opportunities at our disposal
and devises new ones — the originality, in
short, that was responsible for the very
wave of invention already remarked.

He began his operations on a small
scale in his native city of Carlsruhe,
where he gradually worked up a success-
ful trade, remaining there until the year
1848 and he had reached the age of forty-
four years. The conditions imposed upon
labor of all kinds in his native land, as
well as conditions in a more general sense,
wire not at all satisfactory and had led
up to the serious disturbances known as
the Revolution of 1848-49. The entire
state of affairs was becoming more and

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more intolerable to men of stong ambi-
tions, especially if they were also strong
republicans in their beliefs and sym-
pathies. Both of these Mr. Balbach was,
and he determined to seek some region
where he could find a greater opportunity
for self-expression, and reap without un-
warrantable interruption the fair fruits
of his enterprise and labor. It is only
natural under the circumstances that his
thoughts should have turned to the great
republic of the west, as did those of so
many of his countrymen at that time. Mr.
Balbach was not obliged, however, to
hazard all on a stroke of fortune as did so
many others, and his natural prudence
impelled him to first see for himself what
conditions in America were. He believed
that, if they should turn out as reported,
his training and experience would insure
him future success, but he preferred to
take nothing for granted, to trust little to
the stories told, and to witness with his
own eyes the environment which he pro-
posed to make his own before taking an
irretrievable step. Accordingly, in 1848,
he sailed for the United States and made
here an extended visit, going carefully
into conditions with a thoroughness typi-
cal of his race, and doubly so of himself.
Two facts stood out most prominently in
his mind after this investigation ; he had
found many reports untrue or exagger-
ated, he had found his preconceived pic-
ture not wholly accurate, but these two
essentials he had seen for himself, and
they outweighed all other considerations
in his mind. The first was that he would
be free of those trammeling regulations
that had so cramped his efforts in his
native land, and he found that, in spite of
the fact that there seemed to be a large
and growing demand for such work as he
contemplated, he would have little if any
competition in that line. In his endeavor
to find the best possible location for the

plant he intended establishing, he visited
most of the large and important cities of
the United States, and, in spite of the in-
ducements held out by western points,
and their nearness to the great mines of
the country, he finally decided on the city
of Newark, New Jersey. Where Newark
lacked in proximity to the mines, it more
than made up by its nearness to the great
markets ; and then, too, the manufacture
of jewelry was carried on there on a large
scale which afforded a double advantage,
both as purchasers of Mr. Balbach's
product and because the dust and sweep-
ings of such places offer a splendid ma-
terial for the refining process. This ma-
terial at that time was commonly sent to
some European city for refining, and it
was obvious to Mr. Balbach that a great
saving on all sides could be effected by
doing it at home. The business sagacity
of Mr. Balbach had been obvious in the
investigations carried on by him in this
country ; what next occurred illustrates a
very different side of his character. While
he was in the midst of them and when he
had about determined to open his busi-
ness in Newark he received the sad tid-
ings that his brother and the latter's wife
had both been seized with a trouble at
that time epidemic in Baden and their
deaths resulted. This, as he knew well,
would leave eight little children orphans
and, leaving everything else behind him,
he sailed at once for Germany to take
charge of the helpless ones. So great was
his charity for them that he adopted all
eight for his own, and thereafter gave
them a father's care and affection.

In 1850 he was able to return once more
to Newark, and it was not long before he
erected the first of the great series of
buildings that have since become so inti-
mately associated with his name. Upon
its completion he began operations, the
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jewelers' sweeping. So satisfactory was
his work that it was not long before his
reputation spread far beyond the confines
of the city, and he began to receive ship-
ments of the sweepings from far distant
points as well as from those near at
hand. His business grew with phenome-
nal rapidity, and his greatest expectations
as to his success in the "New World"
were far surpassed. He was obliged to
add greatly to his equipment of machin-
ery, to erect several new buildings, and
increase greatly his force of men. This,
however, was but the beginning, and a
small beginning to what followed. In
1851 Mr. Balbach extended his operations
into new fields and began the smelting of
silver bearing lead ores for the extracting
from the waste of both these metals. He
drew his materials from the mines of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in
the first instance, but soon went farther
afield for his main supply. All this, of
course, necessitated the further extension
of plant and equipment, and this was
accomplished accordingly, although in-
creases could hardly keep pace with the
growing demands put upon its capacity.
By 1861 Mr. Balbach was receiving ores
from Mexico, and a business with that
distant country was thus begun which
exists to this day. The main source of
these ores, however, was the great mines
of Nevada, from which enormous quanti-
ties of gold and silverbearing materials
were shipped him, so large, indeed, that
it finally became necessary to construct
wharves and warehouses to take care of
the enormous consignments, to say noth-
ing of the increase in the plant itself. The
majority of the great western mining
States followed the lead of Nevada, and
these ores were sent him from Mon-
tana, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona and
Lower California. Notwithstanding the
huge size of the smelting business thus

built up, the original industry was not
lost sight of, and the jewelers' sweepings
are to this day cared for in the great
establishment. One of the very impor-
tant products of the plant is that form of
lead required for the manufacture of
white lead, which prior to this time had
only been produced in Europe and had
to be imported by our manufacturers
here.

The year 1864 saw the admission into
the concern of Mr. Balbach's son, Ed-
ward Balbach, Jr., who had inherited his
father's genius for chemistry and busi-
ness talent. The same year the younger
man made himself famous in the indus-
trial world by inventing a simple pro-
cess for the separation of the precious
metals from the lead ore. which before
had only been accomplished at great
trouble and expense. This notable inven-
tion reduced both the time and expense
elements enormously and gave a new im-
pulse to the whole industry. An account
of it, however, belongs and will be found
with the sketch of Edward Balbach, Jr..
which follows in this work. There, too,
will be found some word of the latest
chapter in the development of the great
concern, its venture into the copper refin-
ing industry, where it has been so suc-
cessful, and its recent growth since the
death of its remarkable founder in 1890,
at the venerable age of eighty-six years.

Mr. Balbach was married to Miss Mar-
garetta Raab, of Ettlingen, Baden, where
she was born in 1806. To them were born
four children, as follows: Amalia. Ma-
thilda, Emilia, Edward.

BALBACH, Edward, Jr.,

Metallurgist, Inventor.

Edward Balbach, late of Newark, New
Jersey, died at the Hotel Savoy, New
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time, on December 30, 1910, in the sev-
enty-second year of his age. His death
was felt as a loss, not merely by the com-
munity of which he was a distinguished
member, but by the smelting and refining
trades the country over, which his efforts
had been instrumental in developing and
bringing up to their present state of per-
fection.

Edward Balbach, Sr., was the pioneer
of the smelting business in the United
States. Carlsruhe, Baden, Germany, was
the city where Mr. Balbach was born
June 4, 1839, and where his family had
dwelt for many years previously. His
father, Edward Balbach, Sr., was a man
of very enterprising nature who came to
this country during the Revolutionary
troubles in 1848 in Germany, bringing
with him his son, at that time a lad
eight years of age. Mr. Balbach, Sr., was
a chemist of large technical learning and
considerable practical experience, and had
been engaged in the smelting and refining
of metals in his native city of Carlsruhe
during his young manhood. It was his
intention upon coming to the United
States to establish himself in the same
business, a project which he carried out
with great success. The city of Newark,
New Jersey, was the scene of his opera-
tions, and in the year 1851 he built a plant
there (this was the first smelter built in
the United States) and began the busi-
ness which has since, under the able man-
agement of himself and son, grown to
such enormous proportions. It was at
first confined to refining work, such ma-
terials as jewelers' sweepings and other
waste products forming the basis of the
operations, but it was not a great while
before other kinds of work were done and
smelting became an important element in
the business.

During this time the son, the Edward
Balbach of this sketch, was growing up

to manhood and gaining an excellent edu-
cation, especially in the subject of chem-
istry, for which he had an unusual natural
talent. His practical knowledge was
gained in working in his father's plant,
where he came in contact with all the
details of the manufacturing process, and
was soon an experienced worker in the
craft. In the year 1864, when he was
twenty-five years of age, Mr. Balbach,
who had already given a great deal of
theoretical study to the subject, devised a
new means of separating the precious
metals, silver and gold, from what are
known as silver-lead ores, such large
quantities of which are found in Nevada.
The treatment of these ores up to that
time had been an extremely costly one,
and not at all adequate in the removal of
the metals, so that Mr. Balbach's new
process was a great boom to the smelter
and refiner, and has practically revolu-
tionized the trade both in the United
States and in Europe, where it has uni-
versally been adopted. It is thus de-
scribed in "The Engineering Mining Jour-
nal," a scientific journal devoted to min-
ing interests which, although somewhat
technical, is not too much so to prevent
the average reader from gaining a clear
idea of it. Says "The Journal :"

The practice was to soften the lead first in a
reverberatory furnace, followed by a liquating
furnace, then desilverized by the addition of zinc
in a kettle; separate the gold-silver-zinc-lead
alloy by liquation in a special furnace; refine the
desilverized lead by heating in a reverberatory
furnace, drawing it off into a market kettle and
moulding in one hundred pound pigs; distilling
the gold-silver-zinc-lead alloy in a tilting retort,
invented by A. Faber du Faur, condensing about
fifty per cent, of the zinc for further use, and
obtaining from the retort a rich gold-silver-lead
bullion, which was cupelled. The important
modification was the distilling of the zinc crust.

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and, as has been said, has modified the
trade throughout the world. In the same
year, 1864, the elder Mr. Balbach took his
son into partnership with him. the firm
becoming known from that time forward
as Edward Balbach & Son. The great
shipments of silver-lead products from
Nevada were at that time almost exclu-
sively divided between the Balbach works
in Newark and the Selby plant in San
Francisco, and for many years these two
concerns did practically the whole work

nation of the Passaic river from the mul-
titude of mills upon its banks, extending
all the way from Newark itself up to Pat-
erson, and even beyond. In the year [884

this old home was the scene of a note-
worthy reception given to Grover Cleve-
land, who had just at that time received
the Democratic nomination for President.
Mr. Balbach, who was always a strong
supporter of Mr. Cleveland, was also his
personal friend, and this friendship grew
and ripened after this event, and was

of this kind in the country, so that large only brought to an end by Mr. Cleve-

amounts of the refined metals were im-
ported from Europe. This condition, of
course, was favorable to the growth of
the domestic business, and under the
capable direction of the two Messrs. I'.al-
bach, the concern grew rapidly in size
until at the present time it employs be-
tween seven and eight hundred men in
its plants. The main plant at Doremus
avenue and Newark Bay, Newark, known
as the Newark Bay plant, covers about
four acres of ground, and it is here that
the great gold and silver refining opera-
tions are carried on. The Balbach re-
silvering process is not by any means
the extent of Mr. Balbach's contribution
to the art of refining metals. He was the
inventor of many devices now generally
used in smelting, such as retorting and
tilting furnaces, and the employment of
water jackets, and many others equally

land's death in 1908. Mr. Balbach, Sr.,
died in 1889, and sometime afterwards the
younger man turned the old home into
offices for the company, and purchased
a beautiful property near Bernardsville.
New Jersey, which has since been de-
veloped into a splendid estate. It was
here that he lived during the summer
months for many years, spending the win-
ters partly in New York City and partly
in Florida.

Apropos of Mr. Balbach's relations to
the general smelting and refining indus-
tries in the United States, the paper al-
ready quoted from remarks that: "He
may be considered as a born chemist and
metallurgist, and was never slow to profit
by new inventions, adapting and apply-
ing them with success to the needs of the
works in connection with the improve-
ments already noted as the results of his

important. In 1881 Mr. Balbach erected own studies and genius. At the same time

the first commercial plant in the United
States for the refining of copper by elec-
trolysis, and thus laid the foundation of
one of the gigantic industries of the coun-
try, one in which it outranks any other in
the world. This plant is situated at Pas-
saic and Ferguson streets.

The old home of the Balbach family
was at No. in Passaic avenue, then a de-
lightful neighborhood, which has, how-
ever, been spoiled since that time for resi-
dential purposes by the gradual contami-

he always remained the practical smelting
man. who had studied and learned the
business from the bottom up. with a tire-
less energy and zeal, setting a constant
and good example to the younger genera-
tion by presence at his post both early
and late."

Mr. Balbach was active in the commu-
nity outside of his purely private business
interests, and always took a keen interest
in its public affairs. His political affilia-
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but there is much more to be said con-
cerning his relations with the Democratic
party — that his allegiance was in no other
way a prejudiced one, and that he was per-
fectly capable of exercising an absolutely
independent judgment in every question
that arose. The truth of this is admirably
illustrated by his action in 1896, when the
Democratic party was split over the ques-
tion of free silver. Mr. Balbach refused to
support Mr. Bryan, and it is claimed that
he voted for McKinley upon that occa-
sion. He afterwards returned to the Dem-
ocratic ranks, however, when the money
issue had been dropped. He rather shrank
from public office than courted it, and was
only once persuaded to accept any impor-
tant nomination, and that was in 1894,
when George C. Ludlow ran for the Gov-
ernorship of New Jersey. Mr. Balbach
was the candidate for Congressman from
his Congressional district, but was de-
feated with the rest of the ticket in a
strongly Republican year. He was ap-
pointed to a constitutional commission in
New Jersey, and aided in making some
much needed changes and reforms in
the existing state of the law. He served
twice as a Presidential elector. He was a
member of the Newark Board of Trade
and of the Newark Automobile Club. In
his religious belief he was an Episcopa-
lian,.and for many years attended Trinity
Church in Newark.

The position occupied in the life of
Newark by Mr. Balbach is not to be con-
veyed by a mere categorical description
of his achievements. His personality, his
charities, his general attitude in life, all
contributed to it, and the great number of
devoted friends that he possessed bears
witness to its character. His philanthro-
pic- were large but very quietly carried
on, and few indeed were they who knew
of them other than the two parties to
them — he who gave, and he who received.
In no other way was this more creditably

known than in his dealings with the great
number of employees who worked in his
mills, a relation which resulted in a very
rare feeling of friendship and confidence
between them. He kept a personal super-
vision over the men, and if one was in-
jured or became ill, he saw that he was
well cared for until able to be about once
more. On this point the "Journal," which
we have already quoted remarks : "What
endeared him to his business associates
and friends was his kind and cheerful dis-
position, combined with a straightforward
character marked by a modest and un-
assuming manner, notwithstanding that
he possessed force and the faculty to
carry through his ideas to a successful end.
He recognized in those around him every
worthy effort in the direction of self-im-
provement, and strove to assist every hon-
est endeavor."

Mr. Balbach was united in marriage
with Miss Julia Anna Nenninger, of New-
ark, a daughter of Peter Franz Nenninger,
a native of Germany, who came to New-
ark about 1848. For many years Mrs.
Balbach was a conspicuous figure in the
Newark social world, and was well known
as one of the most charming of hostesses.
She was, however, a victim of ill health,
and for some time lived in seclusion. It
was in some measure due to this fact that
the family eventually made their home at
Bernardsville, where Mrs. Balbach antici-
pated living much in the open air. Indeed
it was she who laid out and superintended
the arrangement of the grounds of the
estate, without the assistance of a land-
scape gardener, with what succes is well
known in the community. A daughter
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Balbach, who
is now the wife of Edward Randolph, of
New York, the president and treasurer
of the great smelting company. Mrs. Bal-
bach and her daughter both survive Mr.
Balbach.

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NENNINGER. Peter Franz,

Biiiinru Man. Enterprising Citizen.

Inventive genius and great constructive

imagination have been freely given to the
American people, and have been respon-
sible for the phenomenal progress which
lias made the United States the leader of
the world in the fields of industry. But
conspicuously absent in this breathless
rush onward is the stability and reliabil-
ity of the mature civilization of the Old
World. It would seem, that the power to
deliberate has been withheld from the
American in payment for his other great
gifts, much as one finds a man who is a
genius in one line to be a dullard in an-
other. The willingness in America to
adopt anything new for the reason that it
is new has been a factor of prime impor-
tance in the industrial world. But the
value of this has been grossly exagger-
ated ; it has also been responsible for much
time wasted over things that are useless.
The ideal condition will be the outcome
of this progressive American spirit tem-
pered by its contact with the conserva-
tism and deliberate thoughtfulness of the
Old World peoples. Right within her
own borders, and coming to her in con-
stant streams, America has this element.
And among the hundreds of different peo-
ples that come to our shore, the Germans
will beyond a doubt have the greatest in-
fluence toward this end. They have fur-
nished us with a most valuable type of
citizenship, loyal, successful, progressive,
thoughtful men. An example of this type
of citizen, to which America owes much.
was the late Peter Franz Nenninger.

The Nenninger arms are: Arms — Per
pale argent and or. Dexter side, a lion
rampant gules. Sinister side, a demi-
vol conjoined to an eagle's claw azure.
Crest — A vase argent circled by two bar-
rulets gules, with leaves vert sprouting
therefrom.

Peter Franz Nenninger was born at
Neckers Ulm, Wuertemberg, Germany,
on June 28, 1818, the son of Franz and
Maeia (Masthof) Nenninger, prosperous
landowners of that place. During the
political troubles into which Germany
was plunged in the middle of the nine-
teenth century, he emigrated to America,
with his wife and infant son. His wife
was Anna Babbette Miltz, daughter of
Florent and Anna (Roederer) Miltz, of
Strassbnrg, Elsass. They resided in New
York for two years after their arrival
there in 1848, and in 1850 removed to
Newark, New Jersey. According to the
standards of the times they were compara-
tively wealthy, and Peter F. Nenninger
established himself in the oil-cloth busi-
ness on Market street, on the lower Pas-
saic. This was a new industry in Amer-
ica, oil-cloth and like products having
been theretofore imported from Europe.
Mr. Nenninger was very successful in this
enterprise, and for many years his business
had a reputation throughout the country.
The business was first established with
Peter F. Nenninger and Charles Hoh, his
brother-in-law, as partners. This partner-
ship was soon dissolved, however, and
Ferdinand Sautermaster became a part-
ner in the firm, and remained such until
his death in 1804. After this time Mr.
Nenninger managed the business himself.
He was extremely successful and became
substantially wealthy.

Mr. Nenninger was a Republican, and
a great admirer of American institutions
and standards. At the time of the Civil
War there was in existence a battalion
named the Steuben Battalion, of which
Mr. Nenninger was a member. At the
outbreak of the war, however, he was
compelled to send a substitute in his place,
on account of the constant demands of his
business.

The children of Peter Franz and Anna
Babbette (Miltz ) Nenninger were : 1 . Rob-
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ert Franz, married Matilda Dieffenback.
2. Alfred Albert, died in infancy. 3. Julia
Anna, married Edward Balbach, Jr. 4.
Florentine Eugenia, married Henry M.
Dieffenbach, Jr. 5. Oscar Alfred. 6. Gus-
tave Alfred, died in infancy.

Mr. Nenninger was generous to a fault,
and open-handed to all who needed assist-
ance. He was intensely fond of fine horses.
This love of animals, unfortunately, was
his undoing, for, while being run away
with by one of his beautiful crea-
tures called "Swanneck," he was thrown
from the carriage, sustaining severe in-
juries about the head, from which he suf-
fered greatly long after the fall. From
that time he suffered business reverses,
being no longer as keen in judgment as
he had been prior to his fall. The splen-
did business which he had built up gradu-
ally dwindled and slipped from him, and
he died a complete wreck on January 25,
1872.

A grand, generous character, a loving
father, a true friend, a sincere patriot, he
is still remembered at this date by those
who knew him best. His bravery was at
one time shown in a return voyage from
Europe. He was crossing the Atlantic on
the steamship "Hammonia," with Captain
Zucker ; the powder magazine of the ship
exploded, and he alone had the pres-
ence of mind, courage and great physical
strength to put out the fire which ensued.
A cup and a saucer with the picture of
the "Hammonia" painted upon it was pre-
sented to him in memory of this incident,
and it is still extant in the family and
greatly prized. As a sharpshooter he was
unexcelled, and had won many trophies.

CHADWICK, Francis,

Man of Enterprise.

Second to none in his public-spirited
loyalty to Red Bank, Francis Chadwick,
for years one of the leading business men

and citizens of that town, deserves par-
ticular mention among the founders and
builders of that prosperous municipality.

The Chadwicks came to New England
in 1630, and it is to the founder of the
family there that Governor Winthrop
alluded when he wrote of "My friend,
John Chadwick, son of him who was Gov-
ernor of Bermuda, a godly gentleman."
By the marriage of Francis Chadwick, of
the third American generation, to Hul-
dah Taber, descent is traced from Fran-
cis Cooke, of the "Mayflower," and
through the marriage of Taber Chadwick,
of the fifth American generation, to Deb-
orah Longstreet, descent is traced from
the ancient Dutch family of Van Lang-
straaten (Longstreet), founded by "Dirck
Stoffels." the immigrant to America in
1657. Through the marriage of Francis
Chadwick, of Red Bank, to Margaret Ann
Parker, his children trace to George
Parker, who came to New England in
1635. These families — Chadwick, Taber
and Parker — were all of distinguished
and ancient lineage, all bore arms, and
were early in New England, later in Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, where they
have numerous descendants. The Chad-
wicks fought in the Revolution with the
New Jersey troops of the Continental
Line, and held rank grading from captain
to lieutenant-colonel. Some of them were
killed in battle, but all fought valiantly,
and, when peace came, aided in establish-
ing the strong civil government that fol-
lowed independence. The various lines
of ancestry of Francis Chadwick will be
outlined in this review, with the Parker
line of his children.

Chadwick Arms : Gules, charged with a
small shield argent, between eight mart-
lets of the same. Crest : A lily, stalked
and leaved vert. Motto: In Candore
Dec us.

The name Chadwick points to Saxon
origin, and is both ancient and honorable.

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numerous in certain parts of England,
Rochdale Parish, Lancastershire, the early
seat. The most remote ancestor of Fran-
cis Chadwick of whom authentic records
are found and from whom descent can be
traced, is Nicholas de Chadwick, wdio died
in 1445. From him sprang John Chad-
wick, one time Governor of Bermuda,
whose son, John Chadwick, was the
founder of the American family.

John Chadwick, born in England, in
1670, came to New England in 1692. He
married Joanna Reynolds, of Bermuda,
settled in Monmouth county, New Jersey,
and there died June 20, 1739. His wife
died September 20, 1739, only surviving
him three months.

John, son of John and Joanna (Rey-
nolds) Chadwick, was born March 12,
1713, and died April 18, 1785, killed in
battle by the enemies of his country. Al-
though an old man, he fought in Cap-
tain John Holmes' company, First New-
Jersey Regiment of the Continental Line,
his sons all taking a soldier's part in the
struggle for independence. John Chad-
wick was killed by a band of refugees
under the notorious Captain James
Moody, whom a company of Americans
met at Tinton Falls, and after a brief
skirmish retired xbefore the superior num-
bers of the refugees, leaving some of their
number prisoners, including John Chad-
wick. I lis captors marched him to Black
Point (Sea Bright), but before the band
crossed the river the Americans, having
been reinforced by ten men, attempted
rescue. Moody so disposed his prisoners
that the Americans could not fire upon
him without killing their brethren, and
succeeded in holding them off. Finally
John Chadwick and Lieutenant Aukey
Hendrickson broke away, succeeding in
joining their friends, and charged with
them in another attack. But he had

hardly fired his first shot when he fell
pierced by a bullet, and almost instantly
expired. A truce was allowed between
the parties, and the American dead were
removed from the field. John Chadwick
lived on his own land, near Red Bank.
Both he and his wife were members of
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church at
Shrewsbury, and both are buried in tin-
graveyard of that church.

He married Martha Ann Jackson, born
December 29, 1713, died October 22, 1799.
Children: Elizabeth, born in 1736, died
in 1738; William, born in 1738, died in
1815, served throughout the entire period
of the Revolution with New Jersey troops ;
John, born in 1739, died in 1803, also a
Revolutionary soldier; Francis, of fur-
ther mention; Samuel, born in 1743, lost
at sea in 1768; Elizabeth, born in 1741,
died in 1751 ; Sarah, born in 1748, died in
1828; Thomas, born in 1750, died in
1781, commissioned captain of Monmouth
county militia in 1777, and in 1778 was
made a captain of New Jersey State
troops; Mary; Jeremiah, born in 1755,
first lieutenant of Captain Thomas Chad-
wick's (his brother) company, was killed
in battle in 1779; Elihu, enlisted as a pri-
vate in the Third Regiment, New Jersey-
State Troops, served until June 10, 1782,
rising for bravery through all ranks to
that of lieutenant-colonel. He, his father,
and three of his brothers, fought at the
battles of Trenton, Princeton, German-
town, Monmouth and Tinton Falls, the
last named fought June II, 1779, and all
survived until the close of the war. The
skirmish in which John Chadwick lost his
life was fought seven days after the war
was over.

Francis, son of John and Martha Ann
(Jackson) Chadwick, was born July 18,
1741. died June 13, 1809. He married.
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scendant of Philip and Lydia (Masters)
Taber (see Taber line). Francis Chad-
wick served with his father and brothers
in the Revolutionary War, and was one of
the prominent men of his day. Among
his children was a son, Taber.

Taber Chadwick, son of Francis and
Huldah (Taber) Chadwick, was born
March 7, 1773, died in Red Bank, October
7, 1843. He was a 'earned member of the
Monmouth county bar, conducted a large
practice, and was a devout pious man, a
pillar of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He maintained offices in Red Bank, and
from there conducted his legal business.
He was a local preacher, taught in the
Sunday school, was a class leader and
official member of the Red Bank Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, founded several
churches, and was known all over the
country as well for his deeply religious
life as for his legal attainments.

He married, November 13, 1804, Deb-
orah Longstreet, born July 25, 1787, died
September 14, 1833, descendant of one of
the early Dutch families of Flatlands,
Long Island. Children: Francis, died
young; Richard; Jeremiah, died young;
Lydia, married William Parker; Francis,
of further mention ; Sarah Ann, married
Henry B. Parker, long time captain of
the steamboat "Sea Bird ;" Catherine,
married William. Taylor ; Jeremiah; Deb-
orah, married E. Pintard ; Lucinda ; and
Angeline, married Roger Lewis.

The gravestones of Taber and Deborah
Chadwick which mark their burial place
in Tower Hill Cemetery. Red Bank, are
thus inscribed :

In

Memory of

Taber Chadwick

who died Oct. 7

■843

aged 70 years 7

months.

Blessed in the sight of

the Lord is the death of

his Saints.

In

Memory of

Deborah

Second wife of

Taber Chadwick

who died Sept. 14

1833

aged 46 years I month

and 20 days

Blessed are the dead

who die in the Lord.

Francis Chadwick, son of Taber and
Deborah (Longstreet) Chadwick, was
born in Red Bank, March 18, 1813, and
there died May 31, 1882. He obtained a
good education in the common schools,
by self-study and reading, but had no
inclination for his father's profession, the
law. He followed the river and bay for
a short time, becoming captain of a
schooner conveying freight of various
kinds between Red Bank and New York.
After his marriage in 1835 he abandoned
the river, and from that date until the
destruction of his business property by
fire, many years later, he was engaged in
mercantile life. He was a member of the
firm of Parker & Chadwick, conducting
a general store, Mr. Chadwick later con-
ducting extensive coal and lumber opera-
tions. He also owned a great deal of ves-
sel property, one of his investments being
a line running regularly between Red
Bank and New York. He prospered
abundantly, his various enterprises all
proving profitable and ranking among the
most important in Red Bank. Later in
life he sold his commercial interests and
ended his days retired from business
cares. He was one of the most progres-
sive and public-spirited men of his day,
and aided in every enterprise that prom-
ised to advance the interests of his city.
His business ability was acknowledged.

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his uprightness in all things known to all,
and the value of his citizenship was ever
apparent in the respect and honor in
which he was held by those among whom
his entire life was spent.

lie was a Republican in politics, and a
strong partisan, aiding to the utmost to
advance party interests, but never seeking
nor accepting public office for himself.
Francis Chadwick and his wife were at first
members of the Presbyterian church of
Shrewsbury. Later Mr. Chad wick and
other members of that church obtained au-
thority to organize the first Presbyterian
church in Red Bank, of which he was the
leading spirit, both he and his wife being
charter members. The little congregation
worshipped first in a small hall, but a
church edifice was soon begun. As the
work progressed and money was needed
faster than subscriptions to the building
fund were being paid in, Mr. Chadwick
advanced the funds to continue the work,
never allowing lack of funds to delay the
completion of the building, so deep was
his interest. As subscriptions were paid,
he was reimbursed, but he was a large
donor, and to him the founding and up-
building of the First Presbyterian Church
of Red Bank was largely due. He was a
member of the board of trustees, and for
many years its treasurer, and in addition
to his church work was for several years
active in the Sunday school.

Francis Chadwick married, September
9, 1835, Margaret Ann. daughter of Cap-
tain Joseph Parker, of Red Bank, also a
descendant of an old English family set-
tled in New Jersey by George Parker,
who came to New England in the ship
"Elizabeth and Ann," in 1635, later mov-
ing to Rumson, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, founding there one of the coun-
try's most honored families. Children :
Richard L., deceased ; Captain Joseph P.,
died in 1914, for many years captain of

the "Sea Bird," so well known on the
Shrewsbury and in New York waters;
Mary II., married Henry Wood (q. v.);
Dr. Francis T., a physician and phar-
macist of Red Bank and Asbury Park,
New Jersej ; Alvin, deceased; Margaret,
deceased; S. Matilda, now residing with
her widowed sifter. Mary II. Chadwick
Wood.

WOOD, Henry,

Artistic Silversmith.

Mary H. Chadwick, daughter of Fran-
cis and Margaret Ann (Parker) Chad-
wick and a descendant of Dirck Van
Langstraaten (Longstreet), of Holland,
John Chadwick, George Parker and Philip
Taber, of England, married Henry Wood,
whose father was a member of the New
York House of Representatives from
Rockland county.

At the time of his death in January.
1900, Henry Wood was one of the oldest
silversmiths and jewelers in New York
City. He learned the silversmith's trade
in that city, advanced to junior, then to
senior member of the firm with which he
learned his trade, and until his death, con-
tinued head of Wood & Hughes, manu-
facturing silversmiths and jewelers, his
entire business life having been passed
with that firm. He was a man entirely
devoted to his business and his family,
taking but little part in public affairs.
This was true of his entire career, and
while no man was better known in the
jewelry trade, nor more highly regarded
as friend, neighbor or citizen, he was not
well known to the general public. He
possessed all the private virtues, was
honorable to the last degree, generous in
his deeds of love, friendship or duty, one
of the men who form the real bulwarks
of the State, unselfish in their devotion
and loyal to every trust.
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Henry Wood was born in New City,
Rockland county, New York, November
I, 1830, died January 13, 1900. His early
life was spent in the country, where he
acquired a good education and laid the
foundation upon which his later success
was built. When quite a young man he
went to New York City, entering the em-
ploy of the manufacturing jewelry firm
of Wood & Hughes as an apprentice.
This firm was founded in 1833 by Wil-
liam Gale, Jacob Wood, and John H.
Hughes. Jacob Wood and Jasper W.
Hughes succeeded to the business in 1845,
and at that time the firm began trading
as Wood & Hughes, a name it yet re-
tains after a lapse of seventy years. At
the time of Henry Wood's entering the
employ of the firm, his brother, Charles
Wood, was the senior partner. After
completing his apprenticeship and becom-
ing thoroughly familiar with the business
in factory and in office, Henry Wood was
given an interest. This was in 1863, the
principal partners then being his brother,
Charles Wood, Stephen Fraprie and
Charles H. Hughes. Dixon G. Hughes
was also given an interest in the business
and later he, with Henry Wood, was ad-
mitted to full partnership. In 1890 these
two men succeeded to full ownership and
management, following the death of
Charles Wood and Stephen Fraprie's
ownership and management continuing
until Henry Wood's death in 1900. Mr.
Wood at different times during his con-
nection with the business was in charge of
the offices, and at others in charge of the
factory, but his specialty was the manu-
facture of silver hollow ware, a line in
which he had no superior. He was ex-
ceedingly fertile in beautiful appropriate
designs, the artistic talent with which he
was richly endowed suggesting a variety
of treatment which, when wrought out

by the skill of silversmith and jeweler,
gave to each article a distinction all its
own. The leading jewelry firms of New
York came to Wood & Hughes for artistic
designs and superior workmanship, while
all parts of the United States and even
Europe drew largely upon their recog-
nized skill and workmanship as silver-
smiths and jewelers. Mr. Wood had the
happy faculty of inspiring his assistants
in both factory and office with his own
high ideals, and, from an artistic and a
financial standpoint, the continued suc-
cess of Wood & Hughes may be justly
attributed to this spirit of cooperation,
born of the enthusiasm of Henry Wood.
Mr. Wood married, June 9, 1S80, Mary
H. Chadwick. Their home was in New
York City for nineteen years, but in 1899
they became residents of Red Bank, where
Mrs. Wood yet resides near the scenes of
her birth and earlier life.

(The Taber Line).

Taber Arms: On a fess vert, three
griffins' heads erased or. Crest: A grif-
fin's head erased, proper.

Francis Chadwick, of the third Ameri-
can generation, married Huldah Taber, a
descendant of Philip Taber, born in 1605,
died in 1672, who came from England
to New England at an early date. His
first wife was Lydia, daughter of John
and Jane Masters. He was of Water-
town, Massachusetts, Yarmouth, Ports-
mouth and Providence, Rhode Island.
He was made freeman in Massachusetts.
May 14, 1634, and January 4, 1639,
a freeman of Portsmouth. He served
as deputy in 1639-40, was made freeman
of Portsmouth in 1656, and in 1660-61 and
1663 was commissioner. On November 8,
1640, he had his son John baptized in
Barnstable, and six years later, in Feb-
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and Thomas, were baptized. In March,
165 1, he was in New London, coming
there from Martha's Vineyard, where he
had been for some years. He owned
property, and there are several references
to him in the records. By one account he
finally settled at Tiverton, where he died.
He had children :

John, who died young; Lydia, who was
married, April id. 1664, to Pardon Till-
inghast ; Joseph ; Philip, died in 1693,
married and left issue ; Thomas, of fur-
ther mention; John, died June 9, 1747,
married and left issue; Peter, died in
1736, married and left issue ; James, died
October 7, 1690. married and left a son,
Robert.

Thomas Taber, son of Philip Taber, the
emigrant, and Lydia Masters, his wife,
was born in 1646, died November 11, 1730,
a resident of Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
where the Tabers were one of the promi-
nent families.

In 1673 Thomas Taber served the town
as surveyor of highways ; 1675 as fence
viewer ; 1679 as town clerk and constable :
1685, 1692, 1694, 1696, 1699, 1700, 1701
and 1702 as selectman. In 1686 he was
rate maker; in 1689 was captain of the
train band ; and in 1693 was deputy to the
General Court. His will, March 30, 1733,
appointed his four sons — Joseph, John,
Jacob and Philip — as executors, and de-
vised to his widow Mary half the home-
stead, with all houses, orchards and so
forth, as long as she remained his widow,
and to her all his personal estate.

He married (first) Esther Cooke, died
in 1671, daughter of Rev. John and Sarah
(Warren) Cooke. Rev. John Cooke was
the last male survivor of the "Mayflower"
passengers.

He married (second) Mary Thomson,
who dietl May 3, 1734, daughter of Cap-
tain John Thomson, born in 1616, and
Mary Cooke, his wife. Mary Cooke, born

in 1624, was a daughter of Francis Cooke,
of the "Mayflower," and his wife. Ilester
M ahim. Children of Thomas Taber and
his first wife, Esther Cooke : Thomas and
Esther. Children of his second wife,
Mary Thomson: Lydia, born August 8,
1673; Sarah, born in January, 1674; Mary,
burn March 18, 1677 ; Joseph, born March
7, 1679, married Elizabeth Spooner; John,
born February 22, 1681, married Phoebe
Spooner, sister of Elizabeth ; Jacob, born
July 26, 1683; Jonathan, born September
22, (685 ; Bethiah.born September 3, 1687;
Philip, born February 7. [689; Abigail.
born May 2, 1693.

Philip (2) Taber, son of Thomas Taber
and Mary Thomson, his wife, was born
February 7. 1689. He married Susannah,
daughter of Leonard Tucker, and had
issue.

It is not susceptible of proof who is the
head of the generation following Philip
[2), but the probabilities are that it was
Zephaniah. The will of Philip Taber does
not clear the problem at all. That Hul-
dah was a granddaughter of Philip is
clearly proved, but through which son no
public record shows.

Huldah Taber, granddaughter of Philip
and Susannah (Tucker) Taber, married
Francis Chadwick, of Red Bank, of previ-
ous mention (see Chadwick).

(The Longstreet Line).

Deborah Longstreet, wife of Taber
Chadwick, mother of Francis Chadwick
and grandmother of Mary II. Chadwick
(Mrs. Henry Wood), was a descendant
of Stoffel (Theophilus) Langstraat, of
Flatlands, Long Island, 1657. From early
records and writings it is found that the
name, originally Van Langstraaten.aplace
name, became Langstreet and Longstreet.
"The names of Dutch arrivals here have
undergone change, and that of Van Lang-
straaten is now Longstreet." "The Lang-
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street or Longstreet family was of early
Dutch extraction." From other records
of recognized value the following extracts
are taken :

The following took oath of allegiance to the
British Crown in 1687 with the date of arrival
in this country of the foreign born: Dirck Stoff-

lese, 1657, Stoffle Dirckse (Langstraet)

and others.

The following appear in the census of
1698: "Derrick Langstraet, 5 whites in
family. Adrian Langstraet, 1 white in
family. Derrick Langstraet married 24
yrs has 16 children all sound and well.
Stoffel Langstreet of Monmouth Co., N.
J., b. 1713, d. 1784 mar 16 Dec 1743 Abi-
gail Woolley. Their grandson James was
the father of General James Longstreet,
the famous general of the Confederate
Army."

From the "American Weekly Mercury,"
February 14-21, 1726-27, the following
note is gleaned:

From Shrewsbury in New Jersey on Saturday
the last day of Dec. 1726, Theophilus Longstreet
of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged
near sixty years, he met with some swans flying
over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one
shot, such a shot was never known among us.

The line in detail begins with Theophi-
lus or Stoffel Van Langstraaten, of Hol-
land.

His son, Dirck Stoffelse, born in Hol-
land, immigrated to America in 1657. He
married (first) Catharine Van Liewen.
He married (second) prior to February
13, 1690, Johanna Havens, widow of Jo-
hannis Holsaert. Derrick, or Dirck Stof-
felse Langstraet, was a member of the
Flatlands Dutch church in 1677 ; took the
oath of allegiance there in 1687; an as-
sessment roll of Flatlands, 1693, and the
census of 1698 contain his name. An
ante-nuptial agreement with his second
wife, on Gravesend records of February

13, 1690, makes reference to his son, Stof-
fel Dircksen, which reference furnishes
positive proof that that son was a child
of the first wife. At an early period (as
per Rev. G. C. Schrenck) he bought land
at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, which he de-
vised to his son Richard. Issue: Stoffel
Dircksen, of further mention, born about
1665; Classje Dircksen, born about 1672,
married Abraham Lott. of Jamaica ; Ad-
nau, baptized September 16, 1677; Rich-
ard, of Shrewsbury, born about 1680; Jo-
hannis ; and Samuel, married Barbara An-
tonides. He signed his name "Dirck Stof-
fels."

Stoffel Dircksen, son of Dirck Stoffelse
Langstraet and his first wife, Catharine
Van Liewen, was of Flatlands, Long
Island, and Monmouth county. New Jer-
sey. He was a deacon of the Flatlands
church, moved to the "Neversinks" in
Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1698,
and in that county his descendants
abound.

He married Mayke Laaneu, daughter
of Gysbrecht Thysz Laaneu Van Pelt, of
New Utrecht. In his will, dated Decem-
ber 1, 1739, proved March 1, 1741, he calls
himself Theophilus, although he signed
his name "Stoffel Langstratt."

The will of Mayke, his wife, is dated
April 8, 1752, and was proved March
r3- T753- These wills mention children:
Jonica, Catharine, Mary Sarah, Maria
Ann, and Gisbert. Their issue was:
Dirck, baptized April 25, 1696. in Brook-
lyn ; Jonica or Jane ; Catharine, married
Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey; Mary or
Maria, baptized May 6, 1702, married
(first) William Hendricksen, of New Jer-
sey, (second) Dirck Sutphen Schrenck,
died in 1758; Stoffel, baptized December
25, 1713, married, in 1743, Abigail Wool-
ley and resided at Upper Freehold ; Aurze,
baptized in 1710, married Lydia Hall in
Middlesex county, New Jersey; Moica,

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baptized March 6, 1 7 1 6. married (sup-
posed) Johannes Lerk; Anna, born about
1718; and Gisbert.

Dirck, son of Stoffel Langstratt and his
wife, Mayke, was baptized in Brooklyn,
New York, April 25, 1696. He is found
on the records as Dirck and Derrick, but
signs his will Richard Longstreet. He
lived at Manasquan, but in his will dated
May 2j, 1761, calls himself "of the town
of Shrewsbury, county of Monmouth,
State of New Jersey." He mentions in
his will "wife Allice," to whom he leaves
"the plantation my father bought of John
West." Also mentions son Samuel, liv-
ing on Shark River, sons Avrey and
Richard, daughters Catharine, Moica,
Mary and Anne, granddaughters Cath-
arine and Allice, daughters of his eldest
son, Stoffel (deceased).

Richard, son of Dirck (Richard) Long-
street and "Allice,"' his wife, made his
will, and in it calls himself "of Howell,
county of Monmouth, State of New Jer-
sey."

He names in the will his sons, Wil-
liam, Richard, Samuel. John, son of David
(deceased), daughters Elizabeth and
Alice, the children of his daughter, Mary
Morton (deceased), the children of David,
and Richard's daughter, Deborah, by his
first wife. Lydia Morton. lie further
states that he had already given Richard
a farm of one hundred and fifty acres
"which he may dispose of as he pleases,"
but the property he devises to him is to
go to his said daughter, Deborah. He
enumerates the boundaries of the various
pieces of land he disposes of to his chil-
dren by will, and mentions Rankin's line
and Goodman's as being at the south and
east, Painter's road, the head of the bay,
Allen's tavern, the Quaker meeting house,
Clayton's tavern, Square bridge. Zebulon
Clayton's, and various meadows and
woodlands. He makes his "son Richard"
and his "friend Taber Chadwick" execu-

tors, and signed his name Richard Long-
street. Witnesses, Thomas Clayton,
Thomas I. (or J.) Hankinson, and Joel
Willton. The will is in the handwriting
of Taber Chadwick and bears the date of
1827, as does a codicil.

Richard, of the sixth generation, son of
Richard Longstreet, "of Howell." was
born February 18, 1767, died April 1, 1858.
He is the Richard Longstreet who was
"married 24 yrs and had 16 children all
sound and well" by his first wife, Lydia
Morton, who was born July 1, 1766, died
January 4, 1810. Their gravestones are
the only ones now standing ( 1914) in the
old Longstreet burying ground at l'.rielle.
New Jersey. The inscription on his grave-
stone reads :

Richard Longstreet
died
Apr. 1 1858
aged 91 years
1 month & 11 days.
"Aged sire thy work is finished'
"Here on earth thy toils are o'er"
"Brighter happier scenes surround thee'
"Where thou'lt dwell forevermore".

Children: Prudence, born in 1786; De-
borah, born July 2, 1787; Aaron, born in
1788; Hannah, born in 1790; Mahalah.
born in 1791 ; Elizabeth, born in ij<)?,;

, born in 1794; William Morton.

born in 1795; Mary, born in 1796; Lydia,
born in 1797; Catharine, born in 1799;
Abigail, twin of Catharine ; Anna, born
in [802; Richard, born in 1803; John M..
born in 1804; James M., born in 1808.
Beside his stone in the graveyard at
Brielle stands that of his wife Lydia, and
mother of the above children. It bears
this inscription:

In Memory of

Lydia

Wife of

Richard Longstreet

who departed this life

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aged

43 years

and 6 months.

Broken in half, with a sapling growing
between the two parts lies the gravestone
of his second wife :

Zilpah

wife of

Richard Longstreet

who died

Dec. 31 1863.

By this second wife Richard Longstreet
had issue: Zilpah, born in 1813; Inabe,
1814; Esther, 1820; David, 1822; Pru-
dence, 1824; Mahlon, 1825; Thomas, 1826.
Deborah Longstreet, of the seventh
generation, daughter of Richard Long-
street by his first wife, Lydia Morton,
was born July 25, 1787 (according to the
Bible of Taber Chadwick, July 25), died
September 14, 1833. She married (his sec-
ond wife) November 13, 1804, Taber
Chadwick, of previous mention, a de-
scendant of John Chadwick, who died in
New Jersey, June 20, 1739. Issue of Taber
and Deborah (Longstreet) Chadwick:
Francis, born in 1805, died young; Rich-
ard, born in 1807, died young; Jeremiah,
born in 1808, died young; Lydia, born in
1810; Catherine, born in 1812, died young;
Francis, born March 18, 1813 (q. v.),;
Richard L., born in 1816; Sarah Ann,
born in 1818; Catherine, born in 1819;
Jeremiah, born in 1822 ; Deborah, born in
1824; Lucinda, born in 1826; Angeline,
born in 1829. Both Taber Chadwick and
Deborah, his wife, are buried in the old
Chadwick plot in East Red Bank, "Tower
Hill."

Francis, of previous mention, son of
Taber and Deborah (Longstreet) Chad-
wick, married September 9, 1835. Mar-
garet Ann, daughter of Captain Joseph
Parker, of Red Bank (see Parker line).
She was born February 12, 1818, died Jan-
uary 22, 1904. Both Francis and Margaret

A. Chadwick are buried in Fairview Ceme-
tery, near Red Bank, in Middletown town-
ship.

(The Parker Line).

Parker Arms : Gules, a chevron argent,
charged with three fleurs-de-lis gules, be-
tween three keys argent. Crest: An
elephant's head couped argent, collared
gules, charged with three fleurs-de-lis or.
Motto: Scatndis dubiisque rectus.

Margaret Ann Parker, wife of Francis
Chadwick and mother of Mary H. (Chad-
wick) Wood, was a lineal descendant of
George Parker, of England, son of
George and Mary Parker, and a descend-
ant of noted forbears, including Matthew,
an Archbishop of Canterbury. George
Parker came to New England in the
spring of 1635 on the ship "Elizabeth and
Ann," Robert Cooper, master. He brought
a certificate from the minister and justices
of the peace of "Conformitee to ye orders
and discipline of ye church of England,"
asserting "and ye he is no subsidy man."
He was at the time of his coming aged
twenty years, and was a skilled worker in
wood.

Soon after his coming to New Eng-
land he married, and with his wife
Frances, settled at Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, in 1638. In 1638 he was admitted
an "inhabitant," and March 16, 1641, was
made a "freeman." In 1641 he was ser-
geant of the court, an office he held until
his death in October, 1656, the first gen-
eral officer of the colony to die in office.
His widow, Frances, married (second)
Nicholas Brown, of Portsmouth, the same
Nicholas who later donated the ground at
Shrewsbury, New Jersey, upon which
Christ Episcopal Church was built. The
children of George and Frances Parker
were: Joseph, John, Miribah, and Peter.
Joseph, eldest son of George and Fran-
ces Parker, was born not later than 1636,
and was taken to Rhode Island with his
parents.
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:Ie was made a freeman of Ports- ter of Thomas Pills, who was a son of

mouth in 1668, but in 1669 was in Mon-
mouth county. New Jersey, where he
exchanged lands in Portsmouth for land
in .Monmouth county, New Jersey, then
settled in Shrewsbury township, where
he became a very large landowner, his
holdings, reaching from river to river, in-
cluding the site of the present village of
Little Silver. It is said that this name
comes from the fact that in its original
transfer from the Indians they received
therefor "little silver." Joseph Parker's
first house was near the bridge crossing
Parker's creek. He was made a justice of
the peace in 1675, and in [676 was ap-
pointed a justice of the court, holding un-
til 1682, and was also a member of the
Assembly. In 1682 he was appointed a
commissioner to lay out roads and to levy
taxes.

He died at Shrewsbury, August 18,
1684, aged about forty-eight years, leav-
ing most of his property to his son,
Joseph. He married Margaret Slocum,
and had sons, Joseph, Nathaniel and
Peter.

Peter, youngest son of Joseph and Mar-
garet (Slocum) Parker, was born in 1681,
died June 27, 1708. He was a landowner
at Long Branch and Rumson Neck, and
for many years a constable of Shrews-
bury, his home town being near Parker-
ville.

He married Elizabeth C. , and

had issue: Silas, Hannah, Josiah, John,
Peter, Margaret and Elizabeth.

Josiah, son of Peter and Elizabeth C.
Parker, was born in Shrewsbury town-
ship, married, and there lived and died.

William, son of Josiah Parker, was
known as "Boatman Billy," to distinguish
him from a relative, "Rich Billy" Parker.
He married Anna Brookman, daughter of
Henry and Lydia (Bills) Brookman.
Lydia Bills was a daughter of William
and Mary (Borden) Bills, a granddaugh-

\\ illiam and a grandson of Robert Bills.
Mary (Borden) Hills was a daughter of
Francis and Mary | Lippincott) Borden,
and a granddaughter of Francis and Jane
(Yillars) Borden. William and Ann
Parker had issue: Josiah Hyde, Michael,
William, and Joseph ("Captain").

Captain Joseph Parker, son of "I'.oat-
man" William Parker and Anna Brook-
man, his wife, was born in 1784, died in
1858, a lifelong resident of Red Bank and
vicinity.

lie married Hannah Casler, born Sep-
tember 15, 1794, died in 1876, daugh-
ter of John P. Casler, born October 8,
1774, died March 2, 1862, and his wife,
Margaret Clayton, born October 31, 1774,
died July 1, 1824. She was a granddaugh-
ter of John and Margaret Casler, of
French-Huguenot ancestry. Children of
Captain Joseph Parker: John, died young;
"Captain" Henry Brookman; Margaret
Ann; William Bills ; Ashur ; Mary; Jo-
seph ; Jacob ; and Robert, who married
Julia Hance.

Margaret Ann. daughter of Captain
Joseph and Hannah (Casler) Parker, was
born in 1818, died in 1904. She was a
woman of fine quality, noted for her pro-
ficiency in fine needle work and embroid-
ery and for her many womanly virtues.
A specimen of her skill with the em-
broidery needle when a child of eleven
years is preserved in the home of her
daughter, Mary H. (Chadwick) Wood,
and is a wonderful piece of picture em-
broidery. She married, in 1835, Francis
Chadwick. of Red Bank (see Chadwick
sketch).

Editor's Note— On following pages appear a
number of important historical narratives from
the pen of the Rev. Joseph F. Folsom, secretary
of the New Jersey Historical Society, litterateur
and antiquarian, and an author of ability. For
many years he has contributed to the press valu-
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BRAY, Daniel,

Patriot of the Revolution.

Many patriots who in the long struggle
did less for their country's freedom than
Daniel Bray are to-day more honored and
sung, although he, through many perils,
gathered by night the fleet of boats by
which Washington crossed the icy Dela-
ware. Even had the battle of Trenton
proved a disaster for the Americans, in-
stead of the glorious victory it actually
became, the dangerous descent of the
swiftly flowing river, from the mouth of
the Lehigh to Malta Island, a journey of
fifty miles through long wintry nights,
accomplished by Captain Bray and his
compatriots, should at least give his name
a place beside those of Paul Revere, Ser-
geant Jasper and Molly Pitcher.

It has remained for history to set in
proper light his service, and history has
given him but a paragraph. If this brief
sketch shall do no more than lead to an
examination of the facts and traditions
concerning this New Jersey Revolution-
ary soldier, it will have accomplished its
immediate purpose. Afterward a just
verdict will follow.

Meanwhile, in the old-fashioned but
well-cared-for cemetery at Rosemont are
resting the remains of General Bray,
marked by a well-preserved marble head-
stone, bearing only this too modest in-
scription, "Sacred to the memory of Dan-
iel Bray, born October the 12th, A. D.
1 75 1, and departed this life December the
5th, A. D. 1819, in the 69th year of his
age." No military title is prefixed to the
name of one who was a captain in the
Revolution and a general of State militia
afterward. No appropriate inscription to
the memory of a patriot who performed
heroic deeds in one war, and in the sec-
ond war with Great Britain in 1812 stood
in readiness with trained men to go when
called.

Next to him lies his wife, who died in
1840. The headstones are such as well-to-
do people of the early part of the nine-
teenth century had placed above their
graves, and were it not for the prominent
part this soldier played in his country's
history, no just complaint could be made
about his last resting-place, but in view
of what he did, it would seem that his
services should be better memorialized.

Before presenting some facts regard-
ing his life, let us first see what has al-
ready been written about Daniel Bray.
In the late Dr. George S. Mott's "First
Century of Hunterdon County" the fol-
lowing passage is found :

General Stirling was stationed with his troops
opposite Lambertville, at Beaumonts, about three
miles below New Hope. Redoubts were cast up,
one on the top of the hill back of the schoolhouse
at New Hope. General Washington rode up to
inspect these, probably returning the same day.
He ordered a stockade intrenchment to be made,
and batteries to be posted. As it was important
that he should have command of all the boats on
the river, General Green was charged with the
duty. He ordered General Ewing to send sixteen
Durham boats and four flats down to McKon-
keys' (Washington's crossing). These Durham
boats were large and flat, pointed at each end,
being used for conveying iron from Durham to
Philadelphia. General Maxwell was directed to
collect the boats high up the river, as there was
danger of the enemy seizing them, and to place
them under strong guard. This service was as-
signed to Captain Daniel Bray, afterward General
Bray, of the New Jersey Militia, Captain Jacob
Gearheart and Captain Thomas Jones, who col-
lected all the boats on the upper waters of the
Delaware and Lehigh, and brought them down to
Coryell's ferry. The boats were hid behind Malta
Island, just below what is known as "The Mills"
on the Pennsylvania side. The island was dense-
ly wooded, so that the boats could not be seen by
a reconnoitering party of the enemy, as it looked
down the New Jersey heights. These boats were
thus secured for the famous crossing of Christ-
mas night.

Captain Bray was a native of Kingwood, and
was familiar with every boat and crossing along
the river. Captain Gearheart was from Fleming-
ton. To procure these boats, to conceal their
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plans from the Tories who were lurking about,
and who would betray them at the first opportu-
nity, to cut out these flat boats in the darkness of
those cold winter nights, to float them down amid
the rocks and through the rapids, to keep them
from being crushed or swamped, was a task most
difficult and hazardous. But it was successfully
accomplished. Cornwallis was informed of this
enterprise, and sent a detachment to seize these
boats, but they could not find them, or were
afraid to venture across the river in the face of
those frowning batteries.

Dr. Mott also supplies a footnote for
his assertion that the boats for the famous
crossing were thus secured, which refers
to "Dr. Studdiford's Manuscripts," and
"History of Berks County," by W. W.
Davis.

General W. S. Stryker, in his "Battles
of Trenton and Princeton," has this to say
regarding the collecting of boats:

The Durham boat was the ordinary means of
transporting merchandise on the Delaware river,
and of even sending iron ore from Oxford Fur-
nace, in old Sussex county. New Jersey, to the
market at Philadelphia during the forty years
before and after the beginning of this century.
A number of these boats had been carefully col-
lected by men employed by Colonel Humpton, of
the Pennsylvania Continental Line. For the last
ten days Captain Jacob Gearheart, Captain Daniel
Bray and Captain Thomas Jones, all officers of
the Second Regiment, Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, militia, had been busily employed in gather-
ing all the boats of every kind on the upper waters
of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers, and hiding
them, with those previously collected, behind the
thick woods of Malta Island, close to the west
bank, and at the mouth of Knowles creek, where
they were entirely hidden from the Jersey shore.
These boats had been kept under careful guard
and were now brought down some two miles to
McKonkey's ferry, the selected place for the
crossing.

town, Hunterdon County, N. J., about
three miles from the Delaware River, to
make their plans for that object."

Snell's "History of Hunterdon and
Somerset Counties" also refers to Cap-
tain Bray's services in this enterprise, and
quotes Dr. Mott's language.

These passages embrace about all that
history has said about this patriot, but
enough has been presented to prove that
he was the leading spirit in the special
work of securing the boats, though others
accompanied him, and bore the same rank.

Tradition has considerable to say about
that memorable trip up-country, detailing
many incidents which can never be either
proved or gainsaid, but the plain facts of
the case are forever established by the
affidavit of John Clifford, made in 1838,
for the benefit of Mary Bray, who was at
that time petitioning for a pension on the
basis of her deceased husband's Revolu-
tionary services. It is as follows:

John Clifford, born January 10, 1740, (old
style), states, November, 1838, that during the
war he was a lieutenant of militia, and lived in
the same neighborhood with Daniel Bray. The
first tour of duty they performed together was
when three companies were sent from Baptist-
town, in Hunterdon county, to Easton, Pennsylva-
nia, to collect all boats and water craft along the
Delaware from Easton to Sherrods ferry, near
F'renchtown, in order to facilitate the passage of
the American army across the Delaware. The
witness also said he and Bray performed another
tour of duty together, meeting on the occasion at
Ringoes. Lieutenant Clifford, in the company of
Captain Gearheart and Daniel Bray, in command
of a company then going to Elizabethtown, were
completing their service. He also saw Bray in
command of a company on his way to Mon-
mouth.

This author appends a footnote, which
reads as follows: "An affidavit of John
Clifford on file in the War Department,
Washington, D. C, states that he assisted
Captain Bray in gathering twenty-five
boats, and that the party met at Baptist-

Before relating the tradition of the ex-
pedition for the boats, as handed down
among General Bray's descendants, a
brief biography of his life would be timely.

Daniel Bray, according to the record in
his family Bible, was born October 12,

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1 75 1, married, May 14, 1772, and died De-
cember 5, 1819. His family was of Scotch
origin. His father was James Bray, who
lived near Baptisttown, and who in a will
recorded at Trenton in 1758, mentions a
son Daniel (a minor) to whom he be-
queathed land. His grandfather was Rev.
John Bray, who is mentioned as serving
on a jury in Middletown, Monmouth
county, in the year 1684. This clergy-
man and his wife, Susanna, conveyed land
to the Baptists at Holmdel, where a
church was built, and where he preached
in 1711.

James Bray aided in establishing an
"Old School Baptist Church" at Baptist-
town, and there in all probability young
Daniel Bray attended as a boy, as he
afterward did as a man. It is said that
he spent several years on the river as a
"waterman," handling boats. This ex-
perience was valuable to him in after life.
He was popular and energetic and early
known as a leader in the cause of free-
dom. He married, on May 14, 1772, Mary
Wolverton, daughter of Dennis Wolver-
ton, whose house still stands, far down
the lane back of the Kingwood Methodist
Church. They drove to Ringoes for the
ceremony. The bride was twenty-two
years of age, having been born November
2, 1750, and the groom twenty-one. Soon
after the wedding they settled on a tract
of timber land west of the King's High-
way, in Kingwood, where they both lived
till death.

The children of this union were : Eliza-
beth, born January 24, 1775, married Ed-
ward Rittenhouse, December 18, 1791 ;
Delilah, born February 1, 1777, married
Jonathan Rittenhouse, July 10, 1796;
John, born May 25, 1779, died January 29,
1818; Jonathan, born June 25, 1781, mar-
ried Elizabeth Kuhl, February 14, 1805;
Hannah, born April 28, 1783, married
Jonathan Blackwell, October 25, 1801 ;

James, born August 2, 1785, died March
16, 1786; Susannah, born December 6,
1786, married Israel Batemen, May 20,
1820; Andrew, born December 12, 1789,
married Sarah, daughter of Elisha Rit-
tenhouse (date unknown) ; Sydney, born
December 15, 1791, died June 2, 1803;
Wilson, born December 21, 1793, married
Mary West, daughter of Thomas, Decem-
ber 4. 1816; Daniel, born July 20, 1795,
married Elizabeth Kirk, of Philadelphia,
February 1, 1827; Garner, born Decem-
ber 15, 1797, died January 15, 1798; and
Mary, born October 10, 1801, died April
25. 181 2.

Their first home was built of logs, and
from his log house as lieutenant and cap-
tain the young husband went forth on his
monthly tours in the cause of freedom,
being sometimes under the command of
superior officers of the Second Regiment
of Hunterdon County, and at others under
the command of officers of the Conti-
nental regulars. In the petition for a pen-
sion before mentioned his widow stated
that, with it, she was filing three commis-
sions granted to her husband during the
war, one as second lieutenant, another as
first lieutenant, and a third as captain, the
last signed by Governor William Living-
ston. She said that "he served all his
regular monthly tours, from the com-
mencement of the war to its termination,
hired no substitute, nor missed a tour
when his turn came." She stated that
through age and infirmities she was un-
able to specify the particular services, but
she thought that he was in a tour at
Princeton in the beginning of winter, just
before the birth of her child, which was
in February, 1777, and that he was about
three months at the camp at Paramus,
without returning home, and as captain
during the time.

As the daughter of Dennis Wolverton,
of Kingwood, she was married. May 14,

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1772, to Daniel Bray, by Rev. Mr. Fraser,
of the Church of England, who at that
time resided in Ringoes, township of Am-
well, Hunterdon county.

These tours were apparently the regu-
larly recurring expeditions of the New
Jersey militia, to reconnoitre, to attack
outlying posts of the enemy, to join in
battle with the Continentals, or to do spe-
cial military work as occasions demanded.
It appears that various officers and com-
panies took turns in going out, and in the
interims of their service, they attended to
their farms or other vocations. Perhaps
the cause was never in as much peril as it
appeared to be at dark periods, for behind
the visible regular army were always the
reserves of State militia, ready at critical
junctures to fill up the gaps, while mean-
while sustaining at home the resources
of the country.

When Daniel Bray left home for his
monthly tours, his slave, Joseph, attended
to the farm and stock, and protected the
family. Joseph and his wife, Phillis, lived
to a great age. In a corner of the old
"Rittenhouse" Cemetery, now Rosemont,
is a stone inscribed, "in memory of Jo-
seph, a faithful colored servant of Daniel
Bray, Sr." It is said that General Bray-
never allowed the colored people in his
service to be called slaves — they were
always servants. He gave them an op-
portunity for religious and educational
improvement. He built this particular
couple a cabin a hundred yards south of
his own house, and it was still standing
up to recent times, though now a pear
tree and a well are all that remain to indi-
cate the spot.

The ire of the general was once aroused
by a rough practical joke played on the
old negro, long after the war. Some dull
wags wrote a cruel message on his wall
with phosphorus, telling him he would
be lost, and the shock laid him down in
bed.

There are sworn affidavits on file at
Washington showing that Captain Bray
was in service at Paramus, Passaic,
Woodbridge, Passaic Falls, Springfield,
Monmouth (where he fought in the bat-
tle 1. Byers .Mill (where he helped capture
about ninety wagons with plunder), Eliz-
abethtown Point (as lieutenant, before
the Declaration was signed), New Bruns-
wick. Quibbletown and tiermantown.
Two of the affidavits refer to his being a
captain in the battle of Monmouth. It is
evident that he was very active as a sol-
dier, and frequently away from home.

After the war he settled down to hard
work, clearing and improving his large
farm. Old people have related to a grand-
son of the general's, who is still living,
how passing by the farm they used to see
the stalwart veteran in the fields, and
hear from him always a cheery greeting.
He built the house which still stands at
Kingwood about the year 1800, and also
the substantial stone barn, which is as
solid as a fort. The old blacksmith shop
where he had his horses shod still re-
mains, though long since abandoned. At
Prallsville, a well preserved old stone
store, where he obtained his supplies, is
still standing.

General Bray was of striking appear-
ance, and dignified in his bearing, so much
so that when he with his wife, before the
marriage of his son, Wilson Hray, came
down the lane dressed in blue coat and
trousers and buff vest, his prospective
daughter-in-law, Mary Wot. from an
upper window, according to her own con-
fession, fell to trembling, and became very
nervous.

Mr-. Susan Sargent, a granddaughter,
once thus described his appearance as
being "A very large man, not very tall,
but powerfully built, with a rather promi-
nent nose and generous ears." She re-
membered seeing him "only in his mili-
tary suit, with his epaulets and brass but-

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tons on his coat, kneebuckles, with sash
and sword at his side, and with his high-
topped boots and spurs, and his large
military coat thrown back over his shoul-
der, with his cocked hat set on his beauti-
ful white hair, he was a magnificent look-
ing man." He wore a seal on his watch
fob.

The epaulets here spoken of were for
years owned by Miss Elizabeth K. Bray,
a granddaughter, together with his cap-
tain's epaulets, his flint and his Masonic
emblems. He was an officer of Unity
Lodge in 1788, and the first lodge of Hun-
terdon county is said to have met in his
house.

No painting of General Bray has yet
been brought to light, though there is one
of his wife in the possession of a descend-
ant.

An eye witness related to Stacy B. Bray
this incident in his grandfather's life.
When the militia was training at Ringoes,
about 1812, with special zeal in view of the
war, then threatening with Great Britain,
General Bray, as commander, was driving
about on his fine military horse directing
operations. He noticed that Captain John
Lambert was about to touch off the can-
non, and said: "Don't shoot yet, my horse
is a little treacherous." He then spurred
his steed, but almost immediately the
salute was fired, and with a rear the
startled animal threw the rider past his
head, to which, fortunately, the general
clung, and landed on his feet in front.
He drew his sword and said, with great
heat : "What do you mean by disobey-
ing orders in that way?" But Captain
Lambert dryly replied: "If we are going
to have war, your horse had better get
used to the smell of gun-powder."

The tradition, or, better, the traditional
details, of the gathering of the boats were
related by the late Stacy B. Bray, never
before having appeared in print to his

knowledge. The story, according to the
narrator, has been related before many a
fireplace in the old days, and among the
families of the Murfits, the Boyds, the
Merricks, the Parrys, the Hoaglands, the
Brays and others on both sides of the
river. "Tradition," says Mr. Bray in this
connection, "may or may not be true.
When, however, tradition, is based on
historical data and sworn testimony, it is
accepted." The story in brief is as fol-
lows c

After a council of war held in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, which is identified with the one
held at the Merrick House, west of New Hope,
about December 20, a trooper was sent across the
ferry operated by Abram and John Coryell,
located where Lambertville is now situated, with
a letter to Daniel Bray. Kingwood. It had been
finally decided to make an attack on Trenton, and
when one of the council had expressed a doubt
as to the probability of securing enough boats
Washington had said : "Leave that to me."

Then he said he knew a young fellow up in
Kingwood named Daniel Bray, one of his trusted
officers, who had never failed in any duty given
him to do, and that he lived near the river and
knew every ford and ferryboat from Coryells to
Easton. He would bring all the craft needed in
good time.

It must be remembered that the boats used in
the crossing from Trenton to Pennsylvania on
December 8 were all down stream below Trenton
Falls and were to be used for simultaneous cross-
ings at Bordentown and Trenton, while Washing-
ton would cross at McKonkey's ferry, eight miles
above Trenton. It would have been impossible
to get the boats up stream under the circum-
stances, hence others must be brought down from
above.

The trooper proceeded six miles north from
Coryells to Kingwood, where at midnight he
aroused Captain Bray, who, after ordering his
horse saddled, returned with the orderly to Cor-
yell's ferry, where, it is alleged, Washington met
him. It is said that John Coryell ferried Wash-
ington over, and that he introduced his brother
Abram to the general at the "Ferry Hotel," and
that Washington was provided with an upper
room, where he gave the young captain his in-
structions with regard to the boats. He told him
to secure every boat on the Delaware from the

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Lehigh river down, and expressed his confidence
in him. Bray said he would try. and then started
eff in the night to find his helpers. He first rode
to the home of Captain David Jones, four miles
inland, and from there to Flemington, where he
roused up Captain Gearheart.

They were informed of the project and re-
quested to pick out men for it. They met at Rin-
goes, and then finally at Baptisttown. They went
northward in three section of companies, break-
ing up into small groups as though on a hunting
expedition, carrying flint-locks, dressed in linsey
suits, and wearing rabbit and 'coon skin caps.
They kept inland, not approaching the river till
near the Lehigh. From thence downward they
cut out by night the boats of every ferry, the
Durham boats, and all other craft suitable for
transporting the army.

It was a perilous undertaking, as every one
who has come down the Delaware rifts at night
knows. Rocks and shoals must be avoided, the
treacherous rapids must be descended carefully,
with the river running from six to eight miles an
hour. When there is added the cold wintry night,
with exposure to biting winds, on a dark and icy
river, the danger is intensified. But it was suc-
cessfully accomplished.

According to the affidavit, Captain Bray's com-
pany brought twenty-five boats. These were
hidden behind Malta Island (once near the
present Lambertville, but since washed away by
the river), which with its dense timber shielded
them from observation. When they were wanted
that Christmas eve they were floated down eight
miles (not two, as General Stryker says,) to Mc-
Konkey's, where they did memorable and effec-
tive service in transporting to victory the troops
of Washington.

The boats played a very prominent part in the
attack on Trenton. For all time Washington
crossing the Delaware will be one of the most
dramatic incidents of the great struggle Art
has fixed it upon canvas, history has dwelt upon
it. But few eyes beheld that little band of men
risking life and health through the long nights,
bringing the boats to Washington.

The office of the Adjutant-General of
New Jersey contains the following record
of Daniel Bray, who has been celebrated
in song and story for securing the boats
on the Delaware river in 1776 for the use
of Washington :

Daniel Bray was commissioned second lieu-
tenant. Company of Foot, Second Regiment,
Hunterdon county, New Jersey Militia, Colonel
Joseph Beavers, August 31, 1775; lieutenant,
Captain Gearheart's company. Second Regiment.
Hunterdon County. New Jersey Militia, Colonel
Joseph Beavers ; first lieutenant. Captain Gro-
wendyke's company (Second Company, King-
wood) of Foot, Second Regiment, Hunterdon
county. Xew Jersey Militia. Colonel Joseph
Beavers, June 30, 1776.

In command of his company detailed to collect
boats and other river craft on upper Delaware
river, for General George Washington's army on
their retreat through New Jersey from New
York, fall of 1776. He was at battles of Mill-
stone, New Jersey, February, 1777; Germantown,
Pennsylvania, October 4, 1777, and Monmouth,
New Jersey, June 28, 1778; captain of Fourth
Regiment, Hunterdon county, New Jersey Militia.
Colonel John Taylor, October, 1778; captain Sec-
ond Regiment, Hunterdon County (New Jersey)
Militia, Colonel Joseph Beavers, June 30, 1779;
captain Sixth Company (Kingwood), Second
Regiment, Hunterdon County (New Jersey*
Militia. April 12, 1780; captain company of New
Jersey State Troops: served to the close of the
Revolution.

In 1903 Joseph F. Folsom wrote "The
Ballad of Daniel Bray." which has been
frequently reprinted. It may be seen in
"Patriotic Poems of New Jersey," com-
piled by W. C. Armstrong, and in "His-
toric Trenton" by Louise Hewitt.

1. F. F.

RANDOLPH, Lewis V. F.,

Man of Broad Activities.

Lewis Y. F. Randolph, accountant, di-
rector, treasurer and president of rail-
ways, hanker, manager of estates, mayor,
exchange president, traveler, poet, ranch-
man, horticulturist, publisher and lec-
turer, lias had a widely varied and unique
career.

lie was horn .May 16, 1838, at Somer-
ville. New Jersey. His parents were
Enoch Manning Fitz Randolph and Mary
A. Wan Syckle. The families of Fitz Ran-

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dolph and Van Syckle have had their
homes in New Jersey for nearly two hun-
dred and fifty years, participating in Colo-
nial and Revolutionary struggles. The
former family is a very ancient one, and
is traced through more than thirty con-
secutive generations for a thousand years,
from Rolf, the Scandinavian warrior, who
married Gisela, the daughter of the King
of France. It was Massachusetts Pilgrim
stock early in the seventeenth century,
and has made Central New Jersey its
headquarters for about a quarter of a mil-
lennium.

Lewis V. F. Randolph came to Plain-
field at the age of six, with his parents,
and has been a resident of Plainfield dur-
ing the greater part of his life. Learning
to read at the age of four, he continued of
studious habit ever afterward. His edu-
cation was chiefly at Mauriac Academy
in Plainfield. At the age of thirteen he was
well prepared to enter college, was a well-
grounded grammarian, a good scholar in
French and had acquired somewhat of
Spanish. In Latin he had read Caesar,
Virgil and Horace. In Greek he had stud-
ied grammar and composition and had
read Zenophon. In ancient and modern
history he stood well, and had excelled in
geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry
and physics — or, as it was then called,
natural philosophy. He knew by heart
many of the world's more famous poems
and orations, and took a leading part in
public exhibitions of school elocution.

His father died, after a brief illness, at
the age of forty-one, when Lewis was but
ten. The father was a poet and teacher,
and also a manufacturer. He inherited
his name from his mother's father, Enoch
Manning, a Revolutionary soldier, and
brother of the first president of Rhode
Island College, afterwards Brown Uni-
versity. Enoch's father's father, Captain
Joseph Fitz Randolph, was also a Revo-

lutionary hero. Enoch lived a devoted
Christian life, but he left little to his fam-
ily except his good name. His fortune
had been swept away in the tariff troubles
of about 1840.

Lewis went from the academy to earn
a living for his mother and sisters. He
was the oldest child and the only son. In
his earliest days he was in frail and deli-
cate health. He had no difficulty in his
youth, or afterwards, in finding work.
During a life of about four score of years,
every position he has occupied has come
to him without his going after it. Each
position he has filled with entire efficiency
and success. For three years he was a
mercantile clerk. Though as yet a mere
boy, he both studied and taught at odd
times. He taught a grammar class for
some years in the evening — all the pupils
being mechanics and clerks older than
himself. He helped to organize a literary
society whose continued usefulness ex-
tended over a period of eighteen years.
Before he was sixteen he taught a Bible
class in a Sunday school, and continued
in charge of it for nineteen years, retiring
only when changing his place of resi-
dence— the class having then a member-
ship of sixty. He had joined the Baptist
church before leaving the Mauriac Acad-
emy. In his youth he was active in liter-
ary matters. He wrote much for news-
papers and magazines, and published a
cantata which was acceptably performed.
He moved with his mother and sisters
from Plainfield to Newark meanwhile,
and remained there until after marriage.

From mercantile service he went to
bank service. In 1854 he took a place in
the American Exchange Bank in New
York, finding the increased compensation
a welcome means of family comfort. Each
year found him advancing in responsi-
bility and income. Early in 1863, with
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private soldier in the Union army. It was
at the darkest hour of the country's peril,
when the Confederate army was invading
Pennsylvania, and a little while before
the kittle of Gettysburg. He was twice
promoted, and, after the emergency cam-
paign of 1863, he was honorably mustered
out as a sergeant, being at the time ill of
a tedious fever contracted at the end of
his government service. In later life he
was commander of a Grand Army post.
The year 1864 saw him improved in
health and back in the employment of the
American Exchange Bank, and passing
from it, with the cordial recommendation
of the president, to the service of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad Company. He had
become an expert accountant, and as such
he took up a difficult problem for the rail-
road. Having solved it. he was invited
to take a responsible place in the money
department of the company in Chicago.
It was a period when a great volume of
State hank currency was in circulation,
and Mr. Randolph was an expert in cur-
rency and counterfeits. On returning to
the East for a brief vacation, he was un-
expectedly impressed into the service of
the New York office of his company, in
connection with another emergency, and
was made private secretary to the presi-
dent, then W. II. ('-horn. Later his re-
sponsibilities were increased and he was
appointed assistant treasurer. The treas-
urer was in failing health, and Mr. Ran-
dolph discharged the duties of the treas-
urership for many years. In 1875 he was
elected treasurer by the board. He was
the youngest treasurer the company ever
had. In the meantime he had been elected
to the directorship, in 1873, and for a long
period he took an active part in directing
the policy of the railroad. Those were
the conservative and prosperous years of
the Illinois Central railroad, when the
concern earned from eight to ten per cent,
for its shareholders, charged construction

expenses to operation, and paid off in-
debtedness. They were years of onerous
duty and responsibility for Mr. Randolph,
who held the sole signing power on bank
draft-, and who had the personal care of
several millions of dollars of other prop-
erty. To the service of the Illinois Cen-
tral railroad he gave twenty-one years of
hi- life: that is, from 1864 to 1885.

Whilst devoted to these fiduciary duties
Mr. Randolph was also active and useful
as a citizen. He was induced to take the
nomination for the mayoralty of Plain-
field, where he had again come to reside,
and was in 1880 elected to that office. His
expert accounting again came into use in
unravelling unsatisfactory accounts of offi-
cials ; and by untiring energy he achieved
beneficial reforms and municipal progress
in various directions. About this time he
was urged to accept a Congressional nom-
ination, but refused. Despite his refusal
he received many votes at the Congres-
sional convention. He was too independ-
ent for politics, and he was otherwise too
much occupied. He, however, served for
a period as chairman of the Union County
Republican Committee.

He had little recreation in these busy
years, though at long intervals he sought
the refreshment of the Adirondack woods,
or crossed the continent on a mingled
mission of business and recuperation.
Early in 18S5 his overtaxed physical con-
stitution broke down. He was six feet
tall, and, at that time, only weighed one
hundred and thirty-seven pounds, and
was threatened with chronic pulmonary
weakness. He resigned his duties in the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, ex-
cept as to certain trusteeships. These he
has continued to hold. He went to the
Rocky mountains for a period of entire
rest, and also visited Texas and New
Mexico. He became interested in ranch-
ing and purchased land and cattle in the
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wards developed into a practical owner-
ship by him of about four thousand grade
Hereford and short-horned cattle in New
Mexico. In the meantime, by an open-air
life, his health improved, and he regained
more than twenty pounds in weight.

In the autumn of 1886 he was invited
by the executors of Hon. Samuel J. Til-
den's will to become their secretary and
to assist in the management of the estate,
which was then in litigation. It was a
very large estate, with many diverse in-
terests, and his time was fully occupied
in its affairs for several years. Here
again his familiarity with the science of
accounting, as well as his wide knowledge
of investments and business affairs, be-
came conspicuously useful. He was ap-
pointed secretary of the Tilden Trust, the
New York Library Corporation provided
for in Mr. Tilden's will. The estate was
managed with economy and entire suc-
cess throughout the litigation, and the
distribution, according to law, of most of
the assets was made in 1892. Under the
will, about a million dollars remained in
special trusts, and the residue of other
money devoted to particular purposes re-
mained also in the care of the executors
and trustees. Accountings were in the
meanwhile given with entire satisfaction
of the court and of the heirs. Whilst
these trusts were still in course of admin-
istration, in 1903, one of the trustees, Hon.
Andrew H. Green, was suddenly taken
away, and Mr. Randolph was appointed
to the vacancy as executor and trustee.
Closely associated with Mr. Randolph in
the care of the Tilden estate for many
years was Hon. John Bigelow, statesman
and scholar, and between them came to
exist enduring confidence and friend-
ship, which continued until Mr. Bigelow's
death in 191 1. Mr. Randolph was a pall-
bearer at Mr. Bigelow's funeral.

Meantime, following the settlement of
the Tilden litigation, Mr. Randolph was

elected president of the Atlantic Trust
Company. This banking institution had
important clients and depositors, but had
suffered losses under a previous adminis-
tration. Mr. Randolph obtained addi-
tional capital, reformed methods and built
up business ; in fact, under his adminis-
tration, it became a strong and prosper-
ous concern, whose stock was sought for
by prudent investors at the price of three
hundred per cent, and upwards. In this
service he spent some eight or nine years
— the best and most efficient years of his
life — and at the end of this period, in
1902, he joined in a merger of his bank-
ing institution with the Metropolitan
Trust Company, whose leading stock-
holders had bought largely of the shares
of the concern he had managed. When
he retired from this trust, it was a matter
of private and public comment that, in
the course of about half a century of suc-
cessful work, with widely varied fiduciary
relations, in which he had handled hun-
dreds of millions of dollars of other peo-
ple's money, not a dollar had been lost or
misappropriated.

But he was not yet to be suffered to
retire to private life. He visited the West
Indies in 1903, and on his return he re-
ceived an urgent and unanimous invita-
tion to take the presidency of the Con-
solidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange
of New York. He accepted it and again
showed his capacity for administration in
the reforms he instituted and in the prog-
ress he initiated. He was twice reelected
to the presidency without opposition, and
was urged to continue in this position ;
but in 1906 he acted on a resolution long
cherished, the suitable opportunity for
which had now finally been reached, and
he definitely retired from active business.
At least he withdrew as much as possible
and in a way enabling him to carry out
plans for extensive travel.

The above is the barest outline of sixty-

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eight years of Mr. Randolph's life, from
1838 to 1906, but it had many episodes.
He helped to organize the New York
Zoological Society and was its first treas-
urer, continuing in that capacity for about
six years. He organized the Atlantic Safe
Deposit Company and was its first presi-
dent, managing its affairs successfully up
to the time when it began to declare divi-
dends. He took the presidency of the
Kanona & Prattsburg railroad, which had
never paid any return on its securities,
and it soon became a paying concern. He
lifted the Carolina & Cumberland Cap
railway (as reorganized) out of bank-
ruptcy ; and as president of it sold it as a
going concern in course of paying its
bonded interest. For a while he managed
successfully as president a line of steam-
boats operating about New York harbor
and the Hudson river. For some years
he was half-owner and publisher of a
newspaper at Plainfield.

Some particularly hard problems, re-
sulting from maladministration or other
misfortune, came to him for solution, and
he solved them to the satisfaction of the
parties interested. One of these con-
cerned a congeries of coal-mining proper-
ties in Illinois and Iowa, whose bonds
were in default and the validity of whose
mortgages was in question. He estab-
lished the liens of the mortgages in court,
foreclosed them, bought in the several
properties on behalf of the bondholders
at the foreclosure sales, sold some of
them, and organized a new company to
manage the others ; paid dividends on the
company's shares out of earnings, con-
ducted a successful litigation against the
former management, and liquidated, with
abundant satisfaction to the parties con-
cerned, the entire original investment.
As receiver of the New York Iron Mine,
he wound up its affairs and apportioned
the cash resulting therefrom. He man-

aged for some years an iron mine in
Dutchess county, New York, paid off its
indebtedness and paid its first dividend;
and, when a good pile of ore was on the
dump and a comfortable cash balance was
in bank, he negotiated a sale of the prop-
erty at a good price. He took in hand
several series of western mortgage bonds
and liquidated them to the advantage of
investors.

Mr. Randolph took an active part in the
management of other considerable estates
beside the Tilden estate. He was for
many years a trustee of the Jonathan
Sturges estate, and, for about a dozen of
years, he and Alexander Gilbert, presi-
dent of the Market & Fulton Bank, were
co-executors and trustees under the will
of their friend, William R. Clarkson,
liquidating and investing the property
ami paying the income chiefly to the wife
and sister of Mr. Clarkson. In 1910, on
the death of the last income-beneficiary,
the conveyance of the property was com-
pleted to the Jennie Clarkson Home for
Children, agreeably to Mr. Clarkson's
will ; and this institution now cares for
about fifty children with what was sub-
stantially Mr. Clarkson's fortune of about
$400,000. In its board Mr. Randolph has
continued to serve as trustee.

Upon his several retirements, or com-
pletions of duties, from time to time, suit-
able resolutions of recognition and praise
of his achievements were adopted by
boards of directors and trustees with
whom he had served. This was notably
the case with the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company, the Atlantic Trust Com-
pany, the New York Zoological Society,
the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum
Exchange of New York, the Illinois &
Iowa Fuel Company, and the Jennie
Clarkson Home for Children. Perhaps
the mementoes most prized by him have
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ciated with him or working under his
direction. For example, in 1864, on his
retirement from the bank, his companions,
to the number of fifty, gave him a dinner,
and a complete set of Irving's life and
works — twenty-six volumes ; and in 1902
the clerks of the Atlantic Trust Company,
in parting with their president, presented
him with an elegant copy of Shakespeare,
in twelve volumes, suitably and affection-
ately inscribed.

Before the year 1906 Mr. Randolph had
in the course of business or recreation
traveled somewhat in foreign countries
with his family ; but in that year, accom-
panied by his wife, he began a series of
foreign tours which covered many hun-
dreds of thousands of miles and which
continued well into his old age. They
made, in four months of 1906, the tour of
Great Britain and Ireland. In the fol-
lowing year, with his youngest daugh-
ter, he made a longer journey, visiting
Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Holland.
Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece. His
wife and one daughter accompanied him
the next year to North Africa and again
to Italy and France. In years since then,
he has twice visited South America, the
West Indies, Hawaii and Mexico, and has
spent much time in Portugal and Spain.
In 1914 he visited India, incidentally
revisiting Egypt, Palestine, Greece and
other countries.

He studied as he travelled. He saw
much and read much. On board ship he
was known as "the man with a book."
Each time on his return from a voyage he
delivered lectures (in the West and South.
as well as at home) on his observations
abroad. On the voyages themselves, also,
he was frequently invited to give lectures
on his travels for the benefit and pleasure
of his fellow-voyagers. He has seen much
abroad and is familiar with conditions and
scenery in every State and territory of

his native country. Some of the themes
of his lectures have been : "Indian Archi-
tecture and Religion," "Egypt," "Joppa,
Jerusalem and Jericho;"' "Ancient Car-
thage and Modern Tunis ;" "Athens and
the Eleusinian Mysteries;" "The Mak-
ing of Italy;" "Brazil:'' "Argentina and
Chili;" "The British West Indies," and
"The Panama Canal."

Mr. Randolph gathered works of art
and curios from all parts of the world in
the course of travel, and with these his
home in Plainfield has been interestingly
furnished. It has been a happy home.
For more than half of his long life he has
been domiciled in one house at the corner
of Front street and Farragut road. To
this home property he has by purchase
added many adjoining tracts and has im-
proved and adorned them.

In 1S67 he had the good fortune to
marry Emily Caroline Price, daughter of
Matthias and Emily Catherine Price, of
Newark, New Jersey. Their united life
has been an unbroken harmony for half a
century. Their five daughters have grown
to womanhood under loving parental care.
They have all had abundant opportunities
for study and for foreign travel and resi-
dence, and have excelled in musical and
other accomplishments. The first, third,
fourth and fifth have married happily, and
are now Mrs. Lee Ashley Grace, of New
York City; Mrs. Charles Daniel Parfitt,
of Ontario, Canada ; Mrs. Robert Spurr
Weston, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and
Mrs. Harry Keith White, of Plainfield,
New Jersey. The second daughter, Mari-
on, a Wellesley graduate, has been the
invaluable secretary and housekeeper at
home. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph now have
eleven grandchildren, and the Thanks-
giving home-comings and other anniver-
sary occasions are numerously and joy-
ously attended.

Mr. Randolph's literarv and religious

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interests and activities have continued
from youth to old age. In 1900 he pub-
lished a volume of poems, entitled "Sur-
vivals," which received from the press
much praise and no adverse criticism.
Equally successful was his book entitled
"Fitz Randolph Traditions," which was
published in 1907, and which has been in
such demand as to exhaust a large edi-
tion. He has continued in membership
of the First Baptist Church of Plainfield
(of which his father's mother. Mar) Man-
ning Fitz Randolph was, in the year 1818,
a constituent member), and has long been
the president of its board of trustees.

As mayor of Plainfield, he appointed
the first board of trustees of the Plain-
field Public Library. He has been a mem-
ber of this board for many years, and also
its vice-president, and has had much to
do with the library's enlargement and
prosperity. He was one of the organizers
and original trustees of the Muhlenburg
Hospital, and has ever kept his heart and
purse open to good causes.

Whilst in the official service of the Illi-
nois Central railroad, Mr. Randolph stud-
ied law assiduously. He never applied
for admission to the bar, but made his
studies practical, especially in the prepa-
ration of documents and briefs. In these
studies and exercises he continued from
time to time through much of his busi-
ness life. For one brief, which he pre-
pared on a somewhat novel (and ulti-
mately successful) theory, in an impor-
tant case (Peoria & Oquawka railroad
case), and for attendance and effort at the
hearing thereof, the Illinois Central board,
as a party in interest, voted him a special
compensation of $2,500. Another impor-
tant and also successful brief was in
connection with the railroad company's
alleged obligation to pay a certain tax on
income, as claimed by the government
(the claim, in Mr. Randolph's opinion,

being offset by the fact that a part of the
income was derived from sales of lands);
and still another important document was
the foreclosure bill which he prepared as
to the old mortgages on the railroad lines
south of Cairo, and which the bond-
holders' counsel, Judge W. S. Campbell,
filed without emendation, and upon which
was afterwards obtained a decree of fore-
closure.

At the period of his ranchman experi-
ence, about 1886, a certain villainous com-
bination in the southwest obtained from
him an advance payment in money on
cattle purchased and then attempted to
cheat him, but failed. He arrested the
ringleader, attacked the coalition, and,
mainly acting as his own lawyer, forced
them to disgorge. In the course of this
experience, he came to own some thou-
sands of acres of Texas farm lands, most
of which he afterwards sold. Meantime,
he carried forward his ranch enterprise
vigorously and successfully, engaging in
some interesting and profitable experi-
ments in irrigation engineering, and, in
the course of time, arrived at satisfactory
results.

At his home in Plainfield he has built
up a notable park or garden, with hun-
dreds of varieties of rare and beautiful
growths, domestic and foreign. It is
thought by many to be the most interest-
ing garden in the State of New Jersey.
His wife and daughters have shared his
enthusiasm for this enterprise, and many
visitors have participated in the enjoy-
ment of the garden and in admiration
for it.

In the course of his wide experience,
Mr. Randolph has come to know many
distinguished persons of his own country
and of other countries and has numbered
among his friends not a few of those
whom the world has counted worthy.

In 1915 Mr. Randolph delivered courses

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of lectures on India and on Italy before
Carson-Newman College of Tennessee,
which were much appreciated, and the
college conferred upon him the degree of
Litterarum Doctor.

Mr. Randolph has been generally too
busy in conscientiously caring for other
people's affairs to grow rich himself. He
scorned opportunities for making money,
availed of by others, such as were afforded
by his official and private knowledge of
railway and other corporation matters.
He religiously kept free of debt and
gradually laid up out of his earnings a
competence which in his old age he has
enjoyed with his family.

Emily Caroline Price, wife of Lewis V.
F. Randolph, was born in Newark, on the
corner of Broad and Walnut streets, in
the house that is now Grace Church rec-
tory. She is the daughter of Matthias
Price and his wife, Emily Catherine Judd.
Her parents were married July 3, 1838,
and had the unusually long married life
of sixty-three years and six months, being
seldom separated in all that time. The
sixtieth anniversary of their wedding was
celebrated by friends and neighbors of
"auld lang syne," under the trees at the
Randolph home.

The father of Mrs. Randolph, Matthias
Price, was born at Waverly, New Jersey,
on March 12, 1814, on a farm that had
been in possession of his ancestors from
1664, when it was purchased from the
Indians at the time that Elizabeth was
founded. The first ancestor of Matthias
Price that came to New Jersey was Ben-
jamin Price, who was one of the eighty
associates who settled Elizabeth in 1664.
He is thought to have come from England
in 1638. His name, Ben Price, appears
as a witness to the deed bestowing Gardi-
ner's Island on Lion Gardiner, and it is
believed that he came to America with
Lion Gardiner. After living for years in
East Hampton, Long Island, where he

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acquired property and built a house, Ben
Price removed, as one of the eighty asso-
ciates, to New Jersey, and was one of the
founders of Elizabeth. His oldest son —
he had three sons and two daughters —
was Ben Price, Jr., and he was old enough
to be an associate with his father, and one
of the eighty in 1664. There is still a
landmark of a part of the Price property
in Elizabeth, at the corner of Elizabeth
avenue and Florida street, consisting of
a large cut stone, marked on top "1694,''
and on one side "B. P.," and on another
"R. T." It has been guarded by an iron
railing, put there by the Sons of the Revo-
lution, and a sign placed near, reading:
"This stone marks the intersection of the
Carteret land owned by Richard Town-
ley, the land of Benjamin Price, and the
King's Highway, now Elizabeth avenue —
probably the oldest road in New Jersey,
opened by the Dutch before the settle-
ment of Elizabethtown ; the post and
stage route to Philadelphia." — Elizabeth-
town Chapter, No. 1, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution, 1908.

Benjamin Price, Sr., was born in 1621,
and died in 1712, having shown in his
long life of ninety-one years, marked
strength and vigor, both physical and
mental. He was respected and honored
by his associates and was often chosen
by them to represent them where judg-
ment and skill were needed.

One of the sons of Benjamin Price, Jr.,
was Joseph, who married Elizabeth Mil-
ler, about 1738.

One of their sons was Daniel Price
(1st), who married Phebe Whitehead, in
1766. This Daniel was choir leader in the
old First Church at Elizabethtown. All
the Prices were musical and possessed of
fine voices, the heritage of their Welsh
ancestry, for the name Price is a corrup-
tion of ap-Rhys, a very ancient Welsh
name.

Daniel (1st) Price was a volunteer who

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aided in capturing the British transport
"Blue Mountain Valley," loaded with
arms and provisions for the British army,
and mounting twelve carriage guns. This
ship was captured without loss of a man
on the American side, but after the en-
durance of great hardship, for the weather
was severe, it being late in January, or
early in February, 1776. Daniel died in
less than a year afterward in consequence.

Daniel Price (2nd), son of Daniel (1st),
was born March 5, 1767, died April 7,
1824, at Waverly. He was married, in
1790, to Phebe Thompson, born August
9, 1772, died March 1, 1857. One of the
sons of Daniel (2nd) (Daniel had eight
sons and one daughter) was Matthias,
youngest of all the nine children, and
father of Mrs. Randolph.

Mrs. Randolph's mother, Emily Cath-
erine Judd, was born February 20, 1817,
and died September 30, 1908. Her par-
ents were George Baldwin Judd, born
1796, at Farmington, Connecticut, and
died June 1, 1872, in Minnesota. He mar-
ried Abigail Soverel, May, 1816. Miss
Soverel was born September 1, 1796, in
Orange, died November 5, 1880.

The father of George Baldwin Judd
was Elizur Judd, of Farmington, a Revo-
lutionary soldier, born January 10, 1767,
died in 1845, m Illinois. He married Tem-
perance Scott. Elizur Judd was son of
Heman Judd, born in Farmington, Con-
necticut, April 27, 1744, died 1787. He
married Anna Goodrich, daughter of Zeb-
ulon Goodrich, of Wethersfield, in 1764.
The father of Heman Judd was Matthew
Judd, of Farmington, born August 31,
1706, died 1755, married, June 28, 1733,
Abigail Phelps, who died about 1754. The
father of Matthew was Daniel Judd, born
1675, married, December 4, 1705, Mercy
Mitchell, of Woodbury, died April 29,
1748. He was one of the most wealthy
men of those days. His brother's daugh-

ter was the mother of Samuel Hopkins,
D. D., "the Hopkinsian."

Daniel's father was William Judd, born
1635, married, March 30, 1658, to Mary
Steele, of Farmington, died 1690, at Farm-
ington, a very rich man. He was usually
called Sergeant William Judd. His wife
Mary was daughter of John Steele. Wil-
liam was the eldest of six sons and three
daughters. The father of this family was
Thomas Judd, who came from England
in 1633 and settled in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts. He was married about 1632.
He moved to Hartford in 1636 and to
Farmington in 1644. He was a substan-
tial citizen and many times — at least six-
teen times — a deputy to the General
Court. His wife died in 1678, and the
next year he married Clemence Mason
and removed to Northampton, the home
of Miss Mason, where he died on No-
vember 12, 1688. His name is on the
Hartford monument, being one of the
original settlers of Hartford, and also of
Farmington.

Mrs. Randolph is of the pioneer stock
of America. Her paternal ancestry have
been in New Jersey more than two hun-
dred and fifty years, and the Soverels, the
family of the grandmother who married
into the Judd family, came to New Jer-
sey from England in 1739, thus having
been Jerseyites for one hundred and sev-
enty-seven years. This first Soverel in
New Jersey was named Abram and he
was born July 15, 1716. He settled in
Orange and married Jane Williams, De-
cember 10, 1741, and died in Pennsylvania
(where he was called by business engage-
ments) in 1745.

Thus by birth and breeding Mrs. Ran-
dolph is truly a daughter of New Jersey,
and though she has traveled in many
foreign lands, her thoughts and her love
have ever turned fondly to her home in
New Jersey.

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THOMAS, Gabriel,

Early Annalist.

In 1698 there was published at Lon-
don a book, entitled "An Historical and
Genealogical Account of Pensilvania and
of West New Jersey." The author was
Gabriel Thomas, a member of the Society
of Friends, who had recently returned
from Philadelphia. Thomas's object was
to create through his book a widespread
interest in the country along the Dela-
ware river, and to induce people to go
there and settle. The good man painted
a veritable paradise. He wrote, as he
says, "in meer Pity and pure Compassion
to the Numbers of Poor Labouring Men,
Women and Children in England, half-
starv'd, visible in their meager looks, that
are continually wandering up and down
looking for Employment."

Thomas, born in March, 1661, at Ponte-
moil, Wales, was one of the first ship-
load of immigrants to reach Pennsylvania
after that colony had received its name.
The ship was the "John and Sarah" of
London, and her captain was Henry
Smith. The vessel arrived at Philadel-
phia, December 14, 1681. Thomas states
that he then saw the cellar for Penn's
house being dug.

When Thomas returned to England to
publish his book, he was aged thirty-six.
During the sixteen years that had elapsed
since he saw Penn's cellar digging, Penn-
sylvania must have grown marvelously.
Thomas in his book says that there were
above two thousand brick houses in Phil-
adelphia alone, and the particulars he
gives of orchards, gardens and mill sites
in the country on both sides of the Dela-
ware furnish apparent proof of wonderful
development for so brief a period.

Thomas fell out with Penn because the
great proprietor failed to reward him for
writing his glowing book, with the office

of collector of quit-rents for New Castle
county, Pennsylvania. By 1706 Thomas
was back in America, settling on a farm
at Prime Hook Neck, in the present State
of Delaware. He died in December, 1714.
Original copies of the "Account" are
valued at a high figure. The most recent
reprint is that of the Scribners in "Narra-
tives of Early Pennsylvania, West Jersey
and Delaware," published in 1912, and
edited by Albert Cook Myers. J. F. F.

KENNEDY, Archibald,

Revolutionary Soldier.

Archibald Kennedy, who after the
death of Peter Schuyler, his father-in-
law, became possessed of Peterborough,
on the Passaic, opposite Newark, had a
New York house at 1 Broadway. Just
before the Revolutionary War he appar-
ently left his town house to remain in
New Jersey. Petersborough became
known as Kennedy's Farms. Kennedy
was suspected of being in sympathy with
the British and was, in 1778, ordered to
remove to Sussex county. Later he was
permitted to return to his estate. He had
been a captain in the royal navy, but in
1765 was relieved of his command for re-
fusing to take stamped paper on his
frigate.

His New York home is said to have
been "one of the finest houses in the city,
being a spacious two-story-and-attic
building, with the entrance in the middle
and two windows on each side of it, the
frontage on Broadway being fifty-six
feet." This mansion escaped the fire of
1776. It was occupied during the war by
Mrs. Long, who kept a boarding house.
After the Revolution, Isaac Sears, a mer-
chant, popularly known as "King" Sears,
occupied the house. About 1789 the man-
sion was rented for a time to Don Diego
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in the United States. In 1790 it became
a fashionable boarding school for young
women, the school being conducted by
Mrs. Graham. Later it became the resi-
dence of Nathaniel Prime, and still later
was converted into the Washington Ho-
tel. It finally was demolished and the
present Washington building was erected
on the site.

Regarding the home of Colonel Peter
Schuyler, Peterborough, across the Pas-
saic from New York, the book, "Land
Titles in Hudson County," by the late
Charles H. Winfield, gives this important
information :

A part of the Sandford tract, which I take to
be the farm and meadow named in Sarah Sand-
ford's will, was purchased by Colonel Peter
Schuyler, and thenceforth called Peterborough.
By his will, dated March 21, 1761, proved May
28, 1762, Schuyler gave it to his only child, Cath-
erine, wife of Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cas-
selis.

Kennedy and wife conveyed to James Duane
June 13, 1765, the farm on New Barbadoes Neck
(Petersborough), also two tracts near Secaucus,
between the line of the Bergen lots and Pin-
home's creek and Cromkill, also Colonel Schuy-
ler's interest in the commons ( ?) in trust for
themselves. Duane reconveyed to them and to
the survivor, June 15, 1765. The earl outlived his
wife, and by will dated January 19, 1794, left his
property in America to his sons, John and Robert.

I do not know how the interest of John passed
to Robert, but in 1803 he sold the tract, where
East Newark now is, to William Halsey. It was
then a part of what was known as "Kennedy's
Farm." In 1804 the name was changed to Lodi.
Halsey laid out a part of his purchase into ninety
building lots, of at least one acre each.

The site of Petersborough, the home of
Colonel Peter Schuyler, was doubtless
about opposite a point between Gouver-
neur street and Fourth avenue. It was
very near, if not actually on the spot,
where the Kearny Thread Mills stand.
There is in the "New Jersey Archives"
an advertisement of a plot for sale, copied
from the "New York Mercury" of May 1,

1769, that would seem to locate quite
accurately the site of Colonel Peter's
place. The plot of land advertised is said
to be "lying on the banks of the Passaick
about one mile from the church at New-
ark," and that it "commands a most ex-
tensive view of the river, and overlooks
Captain Kennedy's farm, garden and deer
park at Petersborough, to which it is
opposite."

That Captain Archibald Kennedy's
farm once belonged to Peter Schuyler is
obvious, when it is remembered that Ken-
nedy married Schuyler's only daughter,
and through her acquired Petersborough.
Oddly enough, the same issue of "The
Mercury" contains the announcement of
the marriage of Kennedy to Nancy Watts,
his second wife. Through the Watts
family the Kearnys became possessed of
this estate, and General Philip Kearny in
time came to occupy the land of Colonel
Peter Schuyler. Kearny Castle still
stands, but Petersborough is gone for-
ever. The ground on which at present
stands the Kearny castle in Kearny was a
part of the Petersborough land.

It is all plain enough when the records
are examined. Schuyler's daughter Cath-
erine married Archibald Kennedy, and
the place became known as Kennedy's
Farms. After her death, Kennedy mar-
ried Miss Nancy Watts, of New York.
The estate passed to the families of Watts
and Kearny, and was last occupied by J.
Watts Kearny, son of General Philip
Kearny.

During the Revolutionary War, Cap-
tain Kennedy, who was on half-pay in
the British army, was placed by the
Americans on parole. Attorney-General
(afterward Governor) William Patterson
seems to have been suspicious of the cap-
tain. He wrote October 18, 1777. to Gov-
ernor William Livingston a letter in
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Newark are very uneasy about a certain
Captain Kennedy who was laid under
parole by the late convention. The un-
easiness increases owing to the enemy's
having a few days ago driven seventy or
eighty head of fat cattle from his farm,."

The site of Peter Schuyler's house,
Petersborough, has been wrongly located
by many writers, and sometimes confused
with that of Colonel John Schuyler, lying
opposite the mouth of Second River. The
house of John is still standing, a hand-
some colonial mansion, but that of Peter
has long since disappeared.

The "New York Mercury" of Decem-
ber 6, 1762, contained this advertisement:
"To be sold at public vendue, on Monday
the 13th inst, A lot of land, in Newark,
lately belonging to James Still, lying for
8 acres, be the same more or less, whereon
is a stone dwelling-house, situate very
pleasantly on Passaick River, nearly op-
posite the dwelling-house of the late Col.
Peter Schuyler, deceased, which is com-
modious either for a private gentleman,
for a merchant, or for ship-building."

Schuyler died March 7, 1762.

J. F. F.

STEWART, Charles,

Revolutionary Colonel.

Colonel Charles Stewart was born at
Gortlea, County Donegal, Ireland. His
grandfather, Charles Stewart, was a
Scotchman and an officer in the army of
William of Orange. The grandson came
to America in 1750 and settled in Hun-
terdon county. He married a daughter
of Judge Samuel Johnson. During and
after the Revolution he resided at Union
Farm, subsequently called Landsdown,
near Flemington. At Stewart's home in
Landsdown during 1796 died his friend,
General William Maxwell, while on a
visit there. Stewart died June 24, 1800,

and is buried at Bethlehem, Hunterdon
county. A tablet to his memory there
bears an epitaph by his friend, Chief Jus-
tice Smith.

Stewart, who had been a member of
the First Provincial Congress of New
Jersey, was colonel of New Jersey's first
regiment of minute-men. In 1776 he be-
came a member of Washington's staff as
quartermaster, or commissary-general,
and held that office until the close of the
war. He was a member of Congress in
1784-1785. It is said that Colonel Stew-
art was a spare man of medium height.
His blue eyes were sharp, but they could
be kindly. His firmness is remembered.
His portrait by Peale is preserved by his
descendants.

Union Farm was located a few miles
from what to-day is High Bridge. The
name seems to have arisen from the fact
that in 1742 William Allen and Joseph
Turner, forming a union in a business
enterprise, had bought the land for the
purpose of establishing a great iron
works. In 1771 the first partition was
made of the ten thousand acres they had
jointly owned. William Allen died in
1780, and his widow leased Union farm
to Colonel Charles Stewart, who remained
there some fifteen years.

Tradition persistently has claimed that
during the Revolution a detachment of
the American army lay encamped at Two
Bridges, now Fairfield, but until recently
there has been an absence of documentary
evidence for the story. A recently dis-
covered letter written at Two Bridges by
Colonel Charles Stewart, quartermaster-
general of the American army, confirms
the tradition. This letter has been ac-
quired by the New Jersey Historical So-
ciety.

The camp was located on the extreme
southeastern point of Morris county,
which wedges itself between the Passaic

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and the Pompton rivers. The tourist at
this place may pass from Essex to Morris
county by a bridge over the Passaic, and
then pass at once to Passaic county by
the bridge that spans the Pompton. 1 1 ere
meet two rivers and three counties. On
the point in Morris county stands the
stately Post mansion, erected during the
last decade of the eighteenth century by
Thomas Dey, a son of Theunis Dey, who
owned the house in Lower Preakness oc-
cupied by Washington as his headquar-
ters. Some Post married a Dey, and
thenceforth the Posts occupied the man-
sion at Two Bridges. Cornelius Post,
who died at the age of eighty-five years,
September 30, 1905, used to relate many
traditions about the American troops en-
camped at the point. He used to show
where the camp was located near the fish-
slank west of the house, and point out
the spot where stood Derrick Dey's tav-
ern in which Washington, Lafayette and
other officers were at times entertained.

The recently discovered document is a
letter written by Colonel Stewart to Dep-
uty Quartermaster Moore Furman, of
Trenton. It is dated Two Bridges, Octo-
ber 13, 1780. The army was encamped
along the north side of the Passaic from
Two Bridges to Totowa. Washington
was at Lower Preakness. Later, Novem-
ber 27, the army moved to Morristown
for winter quarters. The letter throws
light upon camp life and incidentally
comments upon the baseness of Arnold,
recently turned traitor. Thus it begins :

Dear Sir: — Your favor of the 6th Instant came
to hand last night, it had been carried as far as
Robinson's house. Gen'l Arnold's former quarters
near West Point, this brings that son of iniquity
again in our way. indeed he is in the thoughts of
everybody belonging to the army. No doubt be-
fore this his address has come to your hands, 'tis
said to be a performance of William Smith's and
from the religious strokes in it perhaps it is.
Andre's fate was supported by him with every

mark of firmness & personal resolution. It is a
pity he went that way, but he assured General
Clinton had it in his power to save him by giving
up Arnold, but he would not take the hint and
concluded we dare not execute Andre. He mis-
took.

Flour has come on pretty briskly for a few
days and we have now at least a week's supply
on hand. My letters from Philadl. inform that
much is expected before winter and I hope it will
be got along to camp. Harassed and distressed
as Jersey has really been beyond the sufferings of
any other State, yet I expect if the food was col-
lected and over on the East side of Delaware it
would be forwarded somehow to the Army.

Stewart's letter goes on with comments
on camp affairs. "It gives me pleasure,"
he says, "that you continue your friendly
advice and aid to Colonel Neilson. Timo-
thy find it not a little troublesome to keep
things agoing in Camp, perhaps he re-
forms too fast, some say he does. The
army are already soured, old Dr. Craig
says 'it won't do for them folks to squeeze
too hard, it wont do.' I think the Doctor
generally hitts the mark pretty right. We
hear Gen'l Gates is recalled G. Green will
go in his place. He will find it trouble-
some work but will make it do

"I mean Morris Town as a post of as
much consequence for the winter as the
situation of our army will admit, and I
hope winter quarters will permit a large
Magazine to be collected. I agree with
you that it is hard to ask the Southern
Waggons to come here and will do every-
thing in my power to prevent it, as soon
as the roads get broke, and our supplys
at Camp are so regular as to admit of any
being dropt at Morris Town.

"As I always had satisfaction in doing
business with you and never was dis-
appointed in your exertions for our sup-
port, it cannot but give me pleasure to
hear from you as often as you can drop
me a line, and you may be assured in my
troubling you with a note frequently. I
am, with great regard, your obed' servant,
Charles Stewart.
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Some of the allusions in Stewart's let-
ter to men and events will be clearer
after a word or two of explanation. The
American army broke camp at Tappan
on October 7, 1780, and moved "to the
country in the neighborhood of Passaic
Falls." The forage about Tappan had
been exhausted and the new site was ex-
pected to yield a sufficient supply. The
army encamped along the Passaic Val-
ley from Two Bridges to Totowa, now
Paterson.

Washington made his headquarters at
the Theunis Dey mansion, still standing
in Lower Preakness. Some of the offi-
cers were quartered at Derrick Dey's tav-
ern in Morris county, at Two Bridges,
and nearby was the camp of the soldiers.
Colonel Stewart appears to have made
his headquarters at this place.

Colonel or "Doctor" Craig went to
Morristown and chose the site for the
winter camp, to which from the Passaic
on November 27, the army moved. The
Southern wagons bearing supplies found
it a long journey to Two Bridges, and
Stewart, as will be seen from his letter,
hoped to arrange things so the wagon
loads might be left at Morristown, which
place was on the road the wagons took
from the Delaware to the Passaic.

Moore Furman, the deputy quartermas-
ter-general, whom Stewart so cordially
commends for his services to the repub-
lic, was a well-known resident of Tren-
ton. His epitaph may be read under the
porch of the Old First Presbyterian
Church of Trenton. A book containing
letters written by him during the Revolu-
tion was published in 1912 by the Colo-
nial Dames. A sketch of his life appears
in volume i, on page 306, of this Cyclo-
pedia. He died March 16, 1808.

J. F. F.

DECKER, Caton L.,

Public-Spirited Citizen.

The death of Caton L. Decker, which
occurred at his late home at 117 William
street, East Orange, New Jersey, April
7, 1913, deprived that city of one of its
leading business men, who was a mer-
chant and banker for many years, a man
of excellent characteristics and manly
qualities which endeared him to a wide
circle of friends who estimated him at his
true worth.

The name of Johannis Decker is men-
tioned among those who settled in the
town of Montgomery, Orange county,
New York, between the years 1678 and
1778, and it is practically authenticated
that he was either a son or grandson of
Abraham Decker, the American progeni-
tor, who came from Holland and settled
in Copake, New York, about 1757. Ja-
cob Decker, grandfather of the late Caton
L. Decker, was a native of Orange coun-
ty. New York, from whence he removed
to Chemung county, same State, where
he married Eunice Kelsey, according to
tradition the first white child born in the
town of Ashland, Chemung county, New
York, born March 16, 1789. daughter of
Abner Kelsey. Among their eight chil-
dren, six sons and two daughters, was
Harrison Decker, father of the late Caton
L. Decker, born at Wellsburg, New York,
May 5, 1820, died October 10, 1874. He
was a well-known operator in the oil fields
of Pennsylvania for many years, and a
leading man in his community. He mar-
ried Harriet Tubbs, daughter of Charles
Tubbs, who was a lineal descendant of
William Tubbs, of Duxbury, Massachu-
setts, who was made a freeman of Plym-
outh Colony in 1637, and in June of the
same year was one of those who volun-
teered for service in the expedition against
the hostile Pequot Indians who were then

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committing serious depredations and
Otherwise proving a menace to the colo-
nists. Mrs. Decker died in 1878. Six
children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Decker, as follows: Charles M., born in
1850, a leading merchant in East Orange;
Caton L., of whom further ; Frank T.,
born in 1857; Annie, born in i860: Guy,
born in 1862; J. Frost, born in 1868.

Caton L. Decker was born at Wells-
burg, Chemung county. New York. De-
cember 16, 1854. He attended the schools
of his native town, and being an attentive
student acquired an excellent education.
At an early age he began to earn his own
livelihood, being employed in various oc-
cupations. Eater, in young manhood, in
partnership with his brother, Charles M.
Decker, he engaged in the grocery busi-
ness in New York City, and shortly after-
ward they purchased a grocery business
in East Orange, formerly owned by Ben-
jamin F. Cairnes, and under the style of
Charles M. Decker & Brother conducted
an extensive and profitable business. Both
brothers were men of experience and in-
tegrity, and these characteristics, com-
bined with great sagacity and rare judg-
ment, were active factors in the success
which crowned their well-directed efforts.
In due course of time the business be-
came the largest of its kind in the entire
State, they conducting branch stores in
various towns, including all the Oranges,
Montclair. Bloomfield and Morristown,
and enjoying the patronage of the wealthi-
est and most select residents of that sec-
tion of New Jersey. Caton L. Decker de-
voted the greater part of his time to the
purchasing of the stock, making a care-
ful study of the numerous articles handled
in a first-class grocery establishment, and
the success attained was ample proof that
his judgment could be relied upon. All
of their stores occupied good locations,
being in the center of the business area,
and their window display attracted im-
mediate attention.

Caton L. Decker was also interested in
other enterprises which had for their ob-
ject the upbuilding of the Oranges. He
was one of the founders of the People's
National Bank of East Orange, and served
as a director from its organization until
his death. He took an active interest in
the public institutions, schools and libra-
ries, and contributed generously to the
support of the North Orange Baptist
Church, and of which his wife has been a
member since the age of fourteen years.
She has been active in the Sunday school
and the various societies of the church,
serving in the capacity of secretary of the
Woman's Benevolent Society for twenty-
five years, composed of the women, and
her mother and grandmother were con-
stituents of the church. Mrs. Decker has
also been an active factor in the char-
itable societies of her community.

Mr. Decker was of a kind and genial
disposition, had a wide circle of close per-
sonal friends and his counsel and advice
were often sought. He derived his great-
est enjoyment in his home, surrounded by
his family to whom he was devotedly
attached.

Mr. Decker married, in 1875, upon at-
taining his majority, S. Alice Hoyt, born
in Orange, New Jersey, daughter of
George and Sarah Elizabeth (Taylor)
Hoyt, a great-granddaughter of Daniel
Hoyt, a soldier in the Revolutionarv War.
and a descendant of old New England
stock in many lines. Children: 1. Ed-
mund Lockwood, married Margaret
Gould; children: Jennette, Edmund,
Margaret, Gould Caton. 2. Harriet, died
at the age of three weeks. 3. Florence
M.. wife of Robert Albert Palmer, of
New York City : children : Robert Caton
and Jean. 4. Harold Caton. 5. Ernest
Guy, died at the aere of nineteen vears.
6. Alice Mable. 7. Blanche. 8. Reginald
Harrison, married Aubrey Von Hoffe. Q.
Dorothv. 10. Nelson.

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CHETWOOD, Dr. George R.,

Physician, Honored Citizen.

There is no profession or line of busi-
ness that calls for greater self-sacrifice
than the profession of medicine, and the
successful physician is he who through
love of his fellow-men gives his time and
attention to the relief of human suffering.
The late Dr. George R. Chetwood, of
Elizabeth, New Jersey, was one of the
ablest representatives of his noble calling,
although he had retired from it for some
time prior to his death. His descent is
from one of the old families of the State,
and his grandfather, Judge John Chet-
wood, was a justice of the Supreme Court
of New Jersey.

Dr. John Chetwood, son of Judge John
Chetwood, was a well known physician
in Elizabeth, and died in 1837 of the
cholera.

Dr. George R. Chetwood, son of Dr.
John Chetwood, was born in Elizabeth,
New Jersey, in May, 1802, and died there.
After a suitable preparatory education, he
matriculated at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Philadelphia, and was
graduated from this institution with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a con-
siderable period of time he was an in-
structor in the institution from, which he
had been graduated, then took up the
practice of his profession in Elizabeth.
Subsequently he removed to New York
City, practiced there ten years, then re-
turned to Elizabeth. His practice was a
large and lucrative one, and after his re-
tirement from it he spent much time in
travel. He visited Europe a number of
times, and also traveled considerably in
this country, during all these journeys
writing very interestingly of his impres-
sions by the way. For many years he
served as a director of the First National
Bank of Elizabeth, with which institu-

tion various other members of his family
had been connected, one of his brothers
being at one time president. He was an
ardent supporter of the Republican party,
active in political affairs and served as
State Senator.

Dr. Chetwood married (first) Anna, a
daughter of General Dayton, of Eliza-
beth, but had no children by this mar-
riage. He married (second) in 1878,
Blanche Grapain De Sansteree, born in
Paris, France, a daughter of Charles Gra-
pain De Sansteree, and a relative of Maria
Theresa, and who assisted Napoleon with
a loan of fifteen million dollars in order
that he might carry on his campaign.
Children : George L., a resident of New-
ark; Blanche Emilie Marie, deceased.

HEDDEN, Clarence M.,

Manufacturer, Enterprising Cltiien.

The history of the great business under-
takings of modern times is still to be writ-
ten, for as yet it is an unopened book.
When the romance enveloping commer-
cial enterprise shall be told in language
intelligible to the people, then shall it be
known that many a Waterloo has been
fought, lost and won, within the four walls
of an office, just over the wire, with no
other means than the scratch of a pen, a
mere word, but backed by a will, a brain.
With modern methods, discoveries and
inventions, business has place only for
those who combine the capacities of both
the general and the diplomat, and these
qualities were united in full measure in
the person of the late Clarence Myers
Hedden, of Newark, New Jersey. In his
business undertakings, Mr. Hedden dis-
played those qualities which had made of
his ancestors the devoted patriots who
added prestige to the ancient name of the
family, to which it is necessary to give
brief mention.

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The name of Hedden, Hodden and Hod-
don is of ancient origin, and has many cor-
ruptions, such as Headen, Hedde, Hedin,
Headden and Heady. It is a distinctly
English name, although it is also met
with in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The
armorial bearings betray the fact that
members of the family were participants
in the Crusades. Coat-of-arms — Quarterly
first and fourth argent, a saltire engraved
sable. Second, argent a saltire engraved
between four roses gules. Third, or, a
bend chequy argent and sable. In the
center over the quarterings is a crescent
argent. Crest — An eagle erased or. Motto
—Suffer.

Jared, or Gerard, Hadden, was born
about 1608, and was the first of this fam-
ily to come to America. He probably
came in the fleet with Winthrop, as he is
among the first hundred men admitted
from the Boston church prior to the ar-
rival of other freemen in May, 1634. In
1632 he settled at Cambridge, where he
was made a freeman. He was a tailor
and planter ; was a proprietor of Salis-
bury, Massachusetts, in 1640, receiving
land in the first division, and was of those
who removed to the west side of the
Powow four years later. He was a com-
moner, and taxed in 1650; was one of the
first settlers in Amesbury, 1654-55, where
he received land, 1654-64; received a seat
in the meeting house, 1667, but was a
member of the Salisbury church, 1677-87.
He received "children's land" in Ames-
bury for his daughter in 1659, and a
"township" for one daughter in 1660. In
1680 he was a selectman. His death oc-
curred at Amesbury in 1689; his will,
dated January 20, 1686-87, was proved
March 20, 1689-90, and mentions his
daughters, Mary and Sarah, and their
children, and Elizabeth Huntington and
Ensign John Weed, of Amesbury. He
married Margaret , who died March

20, 1672-73, and probably had other chil-
dren in addition to those mentioned above.

Edward Hedden, in all probability the
son of Jared or Gerard and Margaret
Hadden, was born in 1666, and, like many
of the New England settlers, migrated to
Connecticut, and finally settled in New
Jersey. With his wife he settled at "The
Mountain," now in the vicinity of South
Orange, and there received grants, as their
sons all owned tracts there. He married
Jane Jones, a Welsh girl, born in 1668,
who was a member of the First Church,
Presbyterian, at Newark, prior to the for-
mation of the "Mountain Society," and
she was interred in the burial ground of
the church on Broad street, February 23,
1773, being the oldest person who had
ever died in Newark up to that time.
Children: John, Joseph, Eleazer. Oliver,
Diana and Rebecca.

Joseph, son of Edward and Jane (Jones)
Hedden, was born at Newark, New Jer-
sey, in 1702, and died in that part now
known as Orange, November 3, 1798. He
settled at "The Mountain,'* now South
Orange, and there he and his brother
John owned much land. In various deeds
he is styled yeoman. He is buried beside
his wife Rebecca in the old First Pres-
byterian burying ground at Orange, both
having been members in full communion
of the "Mountain Society" prior to 1756.
The "Centinal of Freedom," of Newark,
had this to say of him, in November, 1798:
"This venerable citizen has from his youth
sustained the character of an honest and
upright man and was much lamented
by those who were acquainted with him.
He had thirteen children, one hundred
and seventy-six grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren. It is a no less curi-
ous than amusing fact that this 'father
of a host' immediately upon arising every
morning, and before dressing, took a gen-
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liquor. He died at the age of ninety-six
years, and was wont to speak with pride
of the fact that he had eight sons who
served their country during the Revolu-
tion." He married (first) Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Samuel Dod, granddaughter of
Daniel and Elizabeth (Riggs) Dod, and
great-granddaughter of Stephen Dod, of
Guilford, Connecticut. He married (sec-
ond) Rebecca, daughter of Matthew and
Ruth (Wheeler) Williams, of Orange.
Children: Ebenezer, David, Elijah, Job,
Simon, Martha, Phebe, Rebecca. Eliza-
beth, Joseph, Jonathan, Sarah and Joanna.

Jonathan, son of Joseph and Rebecca
Hedden, was born in that part of Newark
now known as South Orange, New Jer-
sey, in 1733, and died in East Orange,
December 25, 1795. He was a tailor all
his life, and also cultivated the large farm
which, in the course of time, he had ac-
quired by purchase. He was one of the
incorporators of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Newark (Brick Church of
Orange), was one of the seven trustees,
and was duly qualified before Judge Peck
at the parsonage house, September 22,
1776, each taking the oath of allegiance
to his country. Jonathan Hedden was
elected president of this board of trustees
in the fall of 1776, and filled this office
many years. He married Phebe, a daugh-
ter of Joseph and Phebe (Freeman) Can-
field. Children: Caleb, Daniel, Abial,
Jotham, Mary, Rebecca and Deborah.

Jotham, son of Jonathan and Phebe
(Canfield) Hedden, was born in what is
now East Orange, about 1769, and died
October 12, 1803. He was a farmer, and
also a shoemaker. He served his town
as constable, and was a prominent mem-
ber of the First Church. He married,
1795, Mary Jones, born at Orange, June
4, 1774. died October 28, 1827, a daugh-
ter of Cornelius and Joanna (Harrison)
Jones. Children: Israel, Nancy and Al-
bert.

Israel, son of Jotham and Mary (Jones)
Hedden, was born on the Hedden home-
stead in East Orange, New Jersey, May
1, 1796, and died at Orange, October 10,
1825. He learned the trade of hat making
with his uncle, Cyrus Jones, and estab-
lished himself in business as a hatter in
Orange. He died at the early age of
twenty-nine years from consumption due
to exposure while serving in the War of
1812. His residence in Orange was for a
time in the old First Presbyterian par-
sonage, next to the present Young Men's
Christian Association building. Later he
erected a homestead opposite the present
Park Hotel. He married, March 17, 1821,
Maria Stiles, born October 27, 1798, died
October 8, 1830. Children: Mary Joseph-
ine, Charles Israel, and Maria Augusta,
the last mentioned a posthumous child.

Charles Israel Hedden, son of Israel
and Maria (Stiles) Hedden, was born at
Orange, New Jersey, October 1, 1823, and
died at Newark, New Jersey, January 7,
1893. He was but two years of age at
the time of the death of his father, and
was then taken by his uncle, Job Wil-
liams, of Orange, who raised him. His
limited educational advantages were ac-
quired in the district school, and even as
a young lad he worked out. While liv-
ing for a time with his maternal grand-
father, his leg was so badly broken by a
falling tree that he was lame throughout
his life. As an apprentice to his uncle.
Job Williams, with whom he remained
until he had attained his majority, he
learned the trade of hat making, then
worked as a journeyman for various man-
ufacturers, among them Marshall Smith,
with whom he made his home.

He established himself independently
in the manufacture of hats in 1856, and
was a pioneer in this industry in many
respects. He was the first in Orange to
introduce a steam boiler and a set of
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was also one of the first men to take the
refuse hat roundings and have them re-
picked into hat fur stock, and from that
time to the present every part of waste
hat stock has been utilized. He organ-
ized the firm of John H. Myers & Com-
pany, which continued in business until
its dissolution in 1868. Mr. Hedden pur-
chased fifteen hundred acres of land in
Warren county, North Carolina, and cul-
tivated this successfully as a tobacco and
grain plantation until he returned to New-
ark in 1872. For a time he again lived in
that city, then went to Texas with his
eldest son, with the intention of starting
a sheep ranch there. His stay there was
a short one, and after his return to the
north he was engaged for a time in the
provision business at Washington Mar-
ket, New York City. Abandoning this
line of business, he again turned his at-
tention to the manufacture of hats, and
formed the firm of W. B. Huey & Com-
pany, of Newark, the other members of
the firm being Wilbur B. Huey and Clar-
ence Myers Hedden. When this firm was
dissolved the new one was formed, known
as C. M. Hedden & Company, and this
continued its work on the same premises
as the old company until December, 1883,
when a larger and more commodious
factory was erected on Thirteenth ave-
nue, of which they took possession, in
April. 1884. It was the largest and lead-
ing hat factory of its day, employing more
than two hundred persons, and manufac-
turing one hundred and fifty dozens of
hats daily. Their trade extended all over
the United States, to various parts of
South America, and numerous islands in
foreign parts. He retained his member-
ship in the old First Presbyterian Church
at Orange, although he was a constant
attendant of the Wickliff Presbyterian
Church at Newark. In earlier years he
was a Whig, but affiliated with the Re-

publican party upon its formation. He
was a strong supporter of the Abolition
party, and actively assisted the "under-
ground railway." One of his closest per-
sonal friends was Horace Greeley, and he
held "The Tribune'' in high esteem.

Mr. Hedden married (first) June 9,
1852, Matilda Ward Myers, born June 11,
1827, died June 17, 1870, a daughter of
Zebulon and Eliza (Lindsley) Myers,
granddaughter of Judge John and Phebe
(Baldwin) Lindsley, and related to the
Days, Condits, Wards, and other first set-
tler families. He married (second) Au-
gust 11, 1881, Rhoda Eliza Marsh, daugh-
ter of Justus Morris and Susanna King
(Wright) Marsh, natives of Rahway and
Northfield, New Jersey, respectively. Chil-
dren, all by the first marriage: Richard
Stiles, Lelia Matilda, Clarence Myers,
Israel Charles, Alice Eliza, Jesse Wil-
liams, Edith May.

Clarence Myers Hedden, son of Charles
Israel and Matilda Ward (Myers) Hed-
den, was born at Orange, New Jersey,
June 25, 1856, and died May II, 19x14. He
attended private schools at Orange until
he was fourteen years of age, when, as
the Civil War had entailed financial dis-
aster upon his father, his education was
brought to an abrupt conclusion. The
family lived for a time on a plantation in
North Carolina, and in 1872, two years
after the death of the mother, returned
to the north, where young Hedden at-
tended school for a short time at Hay-
denville, Massachusetts. He was soon
obliged to abandon this, however, and
turn his attention to self-support. Am-
bitious, energetic and persevering, he had
no difficulty in obtaining employment,
and by dint of strict economy accumu-
lated a fortune of some hundreds of dol-
lars which he put to use to the best ad-
vantage. He had attained the age of
twenty-five years when he became asso-

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ciated with his father in the manufac-
ture of hats, and when the firm was in-
corporated in 1899 he became the presi-
dent of this corporation, his wife the vice-
president, and William H. Fitz the secre-
tary and treasurer. He was a man of
many-sided ability, however, and this in-
dustry, large and important as it was,
was not sufficient for his untiring energy
and executive ability, and for a number
of years he was also actively engaged in
carrying on an extensive real estate busi-
ness. For a period of twenty-eight years
he was an active member of the Sixth
Presbyterian Church, and a member of
the board of trustees during sixteen years
of this time. Following is a partial copy
of a set of resolutions authorized by the
board of trustees at the time of his death :

Resolved, By the death of Brother Clarence M.
Hedden the board of trustees of the Sixth Pres-
byterian Church have lost a faithful and efficient
member who served the church for a period of
sixteen years, and whose business judgment and
sagacity have always been of incalculable benefit
to us in conducting the affairs of our work.
While our church has lost a member who for
twenty-eight years has ever rallied to its every
call, liberally giving of his strength and substance
that our Master's work might be supported and
His kingdom advanced.

Mr. Hedden was a member of Newark
Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and of the West End Club, in
which he was a member of the board of
governors for a number of years.

Mr. Hedden married, at Haydenville,
Massachusetts, Nellie Frances Hamilton,
born November 2, 1857, daughter of John
Royal and Sarah Clarissa (Mather) Ham-
ilton, the former a carpenter and builder,
and a descendant of an old pioneer family
of Vermont. Children : Frances Matilda,
born September 2, 1880 ; Lulu Josephine,
born October 12, 1882; Clarence Hamil-
ton, born July 1, 1885; Nellie Estelle,

born December 14, 1887; Charles Leslie,
born January 1, 1890; Ernest Myers, born
September 28, 1892; Albert Henry, born
June 23, 1895 ; Walter Page, born June
25, 1898; Dorothy, born December 28,
1902.

Mr. Hedden was one of the most effi-
cient business men of his day, and in pub-
lic life his merits were no less. His quick-
ness of perception and earnestness in
every cause which he espoused, made him
an invaluable ally and a most formidable
opponent. As an organizer and worker,
he was invaluable, his sagacity was un-
usual and his energy untiring. What-
ever he had to do, he did with all his
might, and it was always well done. With
pleasing manners and a strange power
of personal magnetism, it is not to be
wondered at that he compelled success.
Toward those in his employ he was not
alone employer, but a kind, fatherly friend,
so that they knew to whom to go in time
of trouble, and were always certain to
find the needed assistance. He was chari-
table to a degree, but his bounty was be-
stowed in so unostentatious a manner, that
it was only in rare cases that others in
addition to the recipient knew anything
about it.

FORT, George F.,

Governor of New Jersey.

George Franklin Fort was born in Pem-
berton in May, 1809. He graduated M.
D., University of Pennsylvania, in 1830.
He was a member of the New Jersey
Assembly, of the State Constitutional
Convention of 1844, and later a State Sen-
ator. He was Governor, 1851-54, and
subsequently judge of the Court of Errors
and Appeals. He received the degree of
M. A. from the College of New Jersey, in
1847. He died in New Egypt, New Jer-
sey, April 22, 1872.

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PUTNAM, Erastus G.,

Man of Lofty Character.

To the long and honorable record of an
ancestry traced in England to the year
1 199, Erastus G. Putnam added the rec-
ord of a long life, spent largely in the
service of his fellow men, a life filled with
kindly deeds and charitable acts. From
1872 until his death, October 1, 1915, he
was a resident of the city of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. From 1877 he was largely
engaged in public service, the schools of
the city and the public health depart-
ments receiving at his hands especially
valuable labor, much of it performed
without compensation, surely as a duty
and a labor of love. When he did receive
compensation, it was returned, in chari-
table acts to those he met in distress,
more than twice over. While he was
stern in the discharge of his duties as
health officer, he was deeply respected
and admired by all with whom he came
in contact, and was very popular.

Mr. Putnam traced his English ances-
try to Simon de Puttenham, A. D. 1199.
The family bore arms :

Arms — Sable, in pale, a stork argent, between
sixteen crosses fitchee of the same.

Crest — On a wreath, a wolf's head, couped
gules.

The American ancestor was Captain
John Putnam, of Aston Abbotts, Eng-
land, and Salem Village, Massachusetts,
one of the brave spirits who aided ma-
terially in founding the colony which has
become a proud Commonwealth. The
English and American families through
twenty-five generations is thus traced :*

The line of descent is as follows: (I)
Simon de Puttenham (1199); (II) Ralph
de Puttenham, of Puttenham (1217) ;

(III) Richard de Puttenham (1273);

(IV) John de Puttenham, of Puttenham
(1291); (V) Thomas Puttenham (temp.

Edward I.) ; (VI) Roger Puttenham,
High Sheriff for Herts (1322) ; (VIII)
Sir Roger Puttenham (about 1320-1380).

(IX) William Puttenham, about 1360-
1420, of Puttenham and Pennsylvania ;
married Margaret, the third daughter of
John de Warbleton, of Warbleton, Sus-
sex, and Sherfield on London, Southamp-
ton, by Katherine, daughter of Sir John
de Foxle, Bramshell and Apuldrefield, and
had:

(X) Henry Puttenham, 1403-1473, of
Puttenham, Pennsylvania, Sherfield.
Warbleton, etc; married Elizabeth,
widow of Geoffrey Goodluck, and had :

(XI) William Puttenham, 1430-1492,
of the Manor of Puttenham, Pennsylva-
nia, Long Marston, Sherfield, Warbleton,
Tannerigge and Williegh ; married Anne,
daughter of John Hampden, the most an-
cient of English families, claiming de-
scent from Baldwin de Hampden, who
was of note before the Norman invasion ;
(John, the father of Anne Puttenham,
was Knight of the Shire for Bucks in
1420 and 1430, of Beds, in 1450, in which
year he died. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir John Whalesborough,
Knight of Whalesborough, County Corn-
wall. From John descended John Hamp-
den, the Patriot, noted for his resistance
to the collection of ship-money, whose
mother was Elizabeth Cromwell, aunt to
Oliver Cromwell,) and had:

(XII) Nicholas Puttenham or Ptitt-
nam, third son, born about 1460, lived
at Putnam Place in Pennsylvania, and
had:

(XIII) Henry Putnam, younger son,
was living in 1526; he had:

(XIV) Richard Putnam or Puttyn-
ham, 1500-1556, of Eddlesborough and
W oughton, married Joan, and had :

•This, and the various ancestral narratives
which follow, relating to the Putnam-Woodward
families, are from the papers of Mrs. Mary N.
(Erastus G.) Putnam. The personal narratives
relating to Mr. and Mrs. Putnam are by a staff
writer.

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(XV) John Putnam, of Rowsham,
Slapton and Wingrave, was buried 27
January, 1568; his eldest son was:

(XVI) Nicholas Putnam, of Wingrave
and Stukeley, 1540-1598, married at Win-
grave, 30 January, 1577, Margaret, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth Goodspeed.
She was baptized at Wingrave, 16 Au-
gust, 1556, and had:

(XVII) John Putnam, of Aston Ab-
botts, County Bucks, England, was bap-
tized 17 January, 1579. He married Pris-
cilla Gould, probably early in 1612. With
their four children they came to New
England and settled in Salem Village,
now Danvers, Massachusetts. He died
suddenly on 30 December, 1662. Their
third son was :

(XVIII) Captain John Putnam, bap-
tized at Aston Abbotts, England, died at
Salem Village, 7 April, 1710, "buried by
ye soldiers." He was made freeman in
1635. In 1672 he is styled corporal; on
the 7 October, 1678, he was commis-
sioned lieutenant of the troops of horse
at the village; after 1687 he is styled
"Captain." He served in the Narragan-
sett fight, and retained his military man-
ners throughout his life. He was deputy
to the General Court in 1679-80-86-91-92.
He married, at Salem, 7 March, 1652, Re-
becca Prince, stepdaughter of John Ged-
ney, and had :

(XIX) Eleazer Putnam, born in Salem
Village, 1665; died there, 25 January,
1732-33. In 1690, had been one of Cap-
tain William Raymond's company en-
listed for the Canada Expedition. In
1700 he was chosen tythingman for the
village, and again in 1705. He was con-
stable during the year 1708, and surveyor
of highways on Topsfield road in 171 1.
lie married (second) 14 November, 171 1,
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Benjamin and
Apphia (Hale) Rolfe, of Newbury, born
there, 15 December, 1679, died 2 January,
1752, and had:

(XX) Captain Henry Putnam, born in
Salem Village, 14 August, 1712; killed at
Lexington, 19 April, 1775. He was an
officer in the French War, and did good
service for his country in the subjection
of Canada to the English during our
Colonial War. He was a man of experi-
ence in military matters, and had earned
the commission of lieutenant, which he
held during the Louisburg expedition.
Although exempt from military duty, he
accompanied the troops, with his five sons,
to Lexington, and fell in action. He mar-
ried Hannah, and had :

(XXI) Eleazer Putnam, born in Dan-
vers, 5 June, 1738, died probably in 1805 ;
administration on his estate granted 14
March, 1806. He was in Captain Isaac
Hull's company, and received credit for
five days' service on the Lexington Alarm.
He married Mary Crosby, of Billerica.
published in Charlestown, 20 March,
1761 ; and had:

(XXII) Doctor Elijah Putnam, born
in Medford, Massachusetts, November
17, 1770, died in Madison, New York,
January, 185 1. He moved from West
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Peterbor-
ough, New York, in 1801, thence to Madi-
son, March, 1802, where he located and
practiced medicine for forty years. He
was an organizer of the Madison County
Medical Society, July 29, 1806; was an
excellent physician, a worthy, respected
man, and a Christian gentleman. He
married Phoebe, daughter of Captain
Abner Wood, born in Madison, died
about 1854, and had:

(XXIII) Hamilton Putnam, born in
Madison, New York, 5 September, 1807,
died at Cortland, New York, 15 Decem-
ber, 1892, where he resided more than
fifty years. He was justice of the peace
and supervisor of the county many years ;
a director of the National Bank of Cort-
land ; and a member of the Presbyterian
church. He married, 20 April, 1831, Jean-

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nette Cleaveland, born January 26, 1812,
died 31 July, 1884, daughter of General
Erastus Cleaveland, and had :

(XXIV) Erastus Gaylord Putnam, sec-
ond son of Hamilton and Jeannette
(Cleaveland) Putnam, born December
23, 1833, in Harford, New York, died in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 1, 1915.
He was educated at Cortland Academy,
Cortland, New York, and after complet-
ing his studies taught school until com-
pleting his years of minority. At the age
of twenty-one he left home and went as
far west as Cleveland, Ohio, where he
entered his uncle Erastus Gaylord's
wholesale drug house, studying medicine
five years under an English chemist.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he
was physically unfit for army service, but
under appointment of Governor Tod
served on the Sanitary Commission,
where his medical knowledge was of sub-
stantial value. He was offered appoint-
ment as assistant surgeon, but his health
forbade acceptance. In 1868 Mr. Putnam,
having returned to New York, was
offered and accepted the position of busi-
ness manager of Cornell University, re-
siding during his term of office (from
1868 to 1871) at Ithaca, the seat of the
university.

In 1872 he became a resident of Eliza-
beth, New Jersey, that city being his
home for forty-three years, until death.
He bought the Library Hall drug store
on Rroad street, now the site of Proctor's
Broad Street Theatre, and there con-
ducted a very prosperous business. He
continued in the drug business until No-
vember, 1887, then sold out to William J.
Whelan. For ten years, from 1877 to
1887, he served on the city board of edu-
cation, was president of the board, and
most earnest in his efforts to furnish the
youth of Elizabeth with the best educa-
tional advantages. One result of his
efforts was the establishing of the high

school, that grade of school having been
established largely as a result of his
efforts. After ten years' service he de-
clined renomination.

After surrendering the cares of busi-
ness, and at the earnest solicitation of
many physicians of the city, Mr. Putnam
consented to act as health officer, serving
from May, 1888, until he resigned in 1898,
being succeeded by Louis J. Richards.
As health officer he had to combat a
severe epidemic of smallpox, and during
that period his execution, ability, firm-
ness and devotion was of inestimable
value. So his life was passed, "spending
and being spent." His life was essentially
one of usefulness to his fellow men, and
his monument is in the hearts of those
who during his long lifetime worked by
his side, knew his devotion and self-sacri-
ficing spirit, and in the hearts of those
who benefited thereby. He sought not
worldly honor, but only asked to be of
service. His ancestry opened to him the
door of every patriotic order, but he
availed himself of but one, the Sons of
the American Revolution, joining as a
charter member, Elizabeth Chapter, No.
1, on April 3, 1891.

He married, at "Keewaydin," Orange
county, New York, January 30, 1867,
Mary Nicoll Woodward, born October 1,
1834, in Ithaca, New York, daughter of
William A. and Frances M. (Evertson)
Woodward. Mrs. Putnam is a descend-
ant of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the pa-
troon of the Hudson River Valley, and
of Matthias Nicolls, secretary of the
Province of New York from 1664 to 1680,
and other eminent families, her genealogy
being fully traced on the following pages.
She is a member of the societies basing
their membership on colonial residence
and warlike deeds, and of many women's
organizations, active in good works, a
lady of culture, grace and charm, most
highly esteemed.

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Four children were born to Erastus G.
and Mary N. (Woodward) Putnam, all
of whom died young: I. Mary Evertson,
born December 27, 1867, died August 25,
1868. 2-3. Rosalie Gaylord and Harry
Barrow (twins), born April 7, 1872, died
two days later. 4. William Hamilton.
born November 4, 1875, died three days
later.

Mrs. Putnam continues her residence
in Elizabeth, her home on South Broad
street.

(The Cleaveland Family).

Arms— Per chevron, sable and ermine, a chev-
ron engrailed counterchanged.

Crest— A demi-old man proper, habited proper,
having on his head a cap gules, turned up, with
a hair front, holding in his dexter hand a spear,
headed argent, on top of which is fixed a line
proper, passing behind him and coiled up in
sinister hand.

Motto — Pro Deo et Patria.

The Cleaveland family traces its de-
scent from Thorkill, a Saxon, who about
the time of the Norman Conquest as-
sumed the name of De Cliveland, main-
taining a country seat in the County of
York, England. From him descended
Moses Cleaveland, also known as Moyses
Cleveland, the ancestor of Jeannette
Cleaveland, mother of Erastus Gaylord
Putnam. From Moses Cleaveland de-
scended Grover Cleveland, twice Presi-
dent of the United States, and other men
eminent in public life, four of the name
having been Governors : Grover Cleve-
land, Governor of New York; Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Governor of Connecti-
cut; Jesse F. Cleveland, Governor of
North Carolina; Alvin P. Cleveland, Gov-
ernor of Indiana.

(I) Moses Cleaveland, a descendant of
Thorkill De Cliveland, of York, England,
and the ancestor of the American family,
was born at Ipswich, Suffolk county,
England, about 1624, died at Woburn,
Massachusetts, January 9, 1701. He

landed at Boston or Plymouth in 1635,
and spent his life in Woburn and vicin-
ity. He married, in Woburn, September
26, 1648, Ann Winn, born in Wales about
1646, died May, 1682, daughter of Ed-
ward and Joanna Winn. They had twelve
children, including:

(II) Aaron Cleaveland, born in Wo-
burn, Massachusetts, January 10, 1654,
died there, December 14, 1716. He served
in King Philip's War, as did his brothers,
Moses and Samuel ; was made a freeman
in 1680; became a man of distinction,
prominent in public affairs, and gave his
children the best educational advantages
of that day. He married, in Woburn,
September 26, 1675, Dorcas Wilson, born
January 29, 1657, died in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, November 29, 1714,
daughter of John and Hannah (James)
Wilson. They had issue, including:

(III) Captain Aaron Cleaveland, born
July 9, 1680, in Woburn, Massachusetts,
died in that part of Cambridge called
Mystic (now Medford), Massachusetts,
or at Norwich, Connecticut, about De-
cember 1, 1755. He was a large land-
owner in Charlestown lived there from
1710 to 1713, and again in 1738, prior to
his removal to East Haddam, Connecti-
cut. He was admitted to the church at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 7,
171 1, by profession and baptism, later was
a member of the church at Medford,
Massachusetts, and on August 10, 1755,
joined the church at East Haddam. He
was a constable in Medford from March
I, 1707, to 1708, was also a contractor and
builder, rating high in business ability.
He served as cornet, lieutenant and cap-
tain of militia, and physically was of
great stature and strength. On the rec-
ords he is styled captain, and on the East
Haddam tax list is named as Aaron
Cleaveland, gentleman, his tax rating be-
ing given as £3,000, which classes him as
one of the very wealthy men of the town.

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Captain Aaron Cleaveland married, in
Woburn, Massachusetts, January I, 1 701,
Abigail Waters, born November 29, 1683,
in Woburn, died (probably in Norwich,
Connecticut), January 6, 1761, daughter
of Samuel and Mary (Hudson) Waters.
Among their eight children was a son:

(IV) Moses Cleaveland, baptized July
19, 1719, at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
died prior to 1761. He married at
Wethersfield, Connecticut, Mary Clarke,
born there, June 9, 1724, died at Hope-
well, Ontario county, New York, after
1824, aged over one hundred years,
daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Hurl-
hurt) Clarke. She married a second hus-
band, a Mr. Bliss. General Erastus
Cleaveland was wont to boast of coming
from a long lived race, saying his grand-
mother Bliss "could dance a hornpipe at
age ninety-five," and furthermore could
"touch every note." They had issue, in-
cluding a son:

(V) Moses Cleaveland, born May 23,
1745, at Wethersfield or Norwich, Con-
necticut, died at Morrisville, Madison
county, New York, 1817. He lived at
Norwich and New London, Connecticut,
prior to moving to Morrisville, New
York. He held a lieutenant's commis-
sion in a company of cavalry, was sta-
tioned at Roxbury, Massachusetts, dur-
ing the siege of Boston, and was one of
General Washington's trusted and hard
worked scouts. He married at Norwich.
Connecticut, February 20, 1766, Phoebe
Fargo, born February 14, 1747, in Nor-
wich, daughter of Aaron and Sarah Fargo.
They had issue, including:

(VI) General Erastus Cleaveland, born
June 20, 1771, in Norwich, Connecticut,
died in Madison, New York, January 27,
1857, aged eighty-five years. He settled
in Madison in 1793, was elected to the
New York Legislature in 1806 and in
1808; commissioned major in 1807, and
was colonel in command of the regiment

at Sacketts Harbor, New York, War of
1812 ; commissioned lieutenant-colonel
in 18,12, colonel in 1814, and later was
brigadier-general of militia. He was suc-
cessful in his business pursuits of the
grist mill he built in 1795, the first in
Madison. Later he built two mills else-
where, started a distillery and a brewery,
a carding machine and a satinet cloth fac-
tory, also dealt heavily in cattle for the
New York and Philadelphia markets. He
was remarkable for energy, business abil-
ity, skill and perseverance. He married,
in Southwick, Hampden county, Massa-
chusetts, January 8, 1795, Rebecca Berry,
of the town adjoining Norwich, Connec-
ticut. Her brother, Samuel Berry, bought
the land on which Madison Village, New
York, is located from Seth Gibson, who
at a cost of twenty-five dollars obtained
possession of the land. They had :

(VII) Jeannette Cleaveland, born Jan-
uary 26, 181 7, at Madison, died July 31,
1884, at Middleboro, Massachusetts, on a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Grant. She
married at Madison, April 20, 183 1,
Hamilton Putnam, born in Madison, Sep-
tember 5, 1807, died at Cortland, New
York, December 15, 1892 (see Putnam
XXIII). They had:

(VIII) Erastus Gaylord Putnam (see
Putnam XXIV).

MARY NICOLL WOODWARD PUTNAM.

Were personal comfort and ease the
object of her life, Mrs. Putnam might well
retire from the many charities, philan-
thropies and societies with which she is
connected, and with the means at her
command gratify every selfish impulse.
But she realizes her responsibilities to the
full, and since the death of her husband
has devoted her life to good works, not
with a perfunctory interest, but with all
the enthusiasm of her strong, ardent na-
ture. Of distinguished English, Dutch
and American ancestry, she inherits the

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admirable traits of character which dis-
tinguished her forbears, and in her is per-
petuated in gentle womanly form and
grace their virtues. Years have brought
out in strong relief the best traits of
human character, and, as constant chisel-
ing brings out the perfect statue, so the
chastening influences of years and sorrow
have revealed her as the woman of
broadest, deepest sympathy, whose ear is
quick to hear the cry of the needy, and
whose hand is ever ready to extend suc-
cor. While her private benefactions are
many, she also works through the so-
cieties that best represent her own prac-
tical views of usefulness in charity, phi-
lanthropy and patriotism. Her deepest
interest and the causes in which her per-
sonal efforts are directed, are church
charities, missions, preservation of his-
torical landmarks, the abolition of child
labor, public playgrounds, and woman
suffrage.

Mary Nicoll Woodward was born Oc-
tober I, 1834, at Ithaca, New York,
daughter of William Amos and Frances
Mary (Evertson) Woodward. She was
educated at St. Ann's Hall, New York
City, by the Rev. I. F. Schroeder, D. D.,
and was married at "Keewaydin," Orange
county, New York, January 30, 1867, to
Erastus Gaylord Putnam. She has con-
tinued her residence at Elizabeth, New
Jersey, since becoming a widow, her home
the abode of hospitality and all the refine-
ment of life.

She is a member of the Recreation As-
sociation of America; Woman's Branch
of the New Jersey Historical Society; the
Charity Organization Society ; the Visit-
ing Nurses Association ; the Ladies' Aid
Society of the General Hospital and Dis-
pensary of Elizabeth ; the Protestant
Episcopal Church ; the Daughters of the
American Revolution, of which she
founded the Boudinot Chapter, was re-
gent ten years, was successively State

vice-regent, State regent, vice-president-
general, and at the present time is honor-
ary vice-president-general ; Society of
Colonial Dames; Order of the Crown;
Huguenot Society of America ; Daugh-
ters of Holland Dames ; Society of Amer-
icans of Armorial Ancestry ; Society of
New England Women ; life member of
the New Jersey Historical Society, and
the Monday Club of Elizabeth.

Mrs. Putnam traces to Johannes Beeck-
man, 1660; to Right Honorable Oloff
Stevense Van Cortlandt, 1566; to Cap-
tain Henry Holland, 1661 ; to Jean Bou-
dinot, 1669; to Jan Hendrickse Van Baal,
1636; to Admiral Johan Evertsen, 1600;
to Wilhelmus Teller, 1620; Kiliaen Van
Rensselaer, 1595.

(The Line of Royal Descent).

(I) Alfred the Great, King of England,
871-901 ; had by his wife, Lady Elswitha,
daughter of Ethelran the Great, Earl of
Mercia :

(II) Edward the Elder, King of Eng-
land, 901-925, who had by his third wife,
Oueen Egdiva, daughter of the Saxon
Earl Sigelline :

(III) Edmund I, King of England,
940-046, who married Elgiva, grand-
daughter of Alfred the Great, and had :

(IV) Edgar the Peaceful, King of Eng-
land, 958-975, who married Elfrida, daugh-
ter of Ordgar, Earl of Devon, and had :

(V) Ethelred the Unready, King of
England, 979-1016, who had by his wife
Elgiva, daughter of Earl Thorad :

(VI) Edmund Ironsides, King of Eng-
land, 1016, who had by his wife. Lady
Algitha of Denmark:

(VII) Prince Edward the Exile of
England, who married Lady Agatha of
Germany, and had :

(VIII) Princess Margaret of England,
who married Malcolm Canmore, King of
Scotland, and had :

(IX) Princess Matilda of Scotland, who
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married Henry I, King of England, uoo-
1135, and had :

(X) Empress Maud, widow of Henry
V, Emperor of Germany, married, 11 27,
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou,
and had :

(XI) Henry II, King of England, 1154-
1 189, married Princess Eleanor, Countess
of Poitou and Duchess of Aquitane,
daughter and heir of William, Duke of
Guienne and Earl of Poitou, and had :

(XII) John, King of England, 1199-
1216, who had by his second wife, Lady
Isabel De Taillefer, daughter of Aymer,
Count D'Angouleme :

(XIII) Henry III, King of England,
1216-1272, had by his wife, Lady Eleanor,
daughter of Raymond De Berenger,
Count of Provence :

(XIV) Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of
Leicester, Lancaster and Chester, Lord
High Steward, who had by his second
wife, Lady Blanche, granddaughter of
Louis VIII, King of France:

(XV) Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lan-
caster and Leicester, who married Lady
Maud, daughter of Patrick De Chaworth,
1253-1282, and had :

(XVI) Lady Eleanor Plantagenet, who
married (second), as his second wife, Sir
Richard Fitz-Alan, K. G, Earl of Arundel
and Surrey, and had:

(XVII) Lady Alice Fitz-Alan, who
married Sir Thomas De Holland, K. G.,
second Earl of Kent, marshal of England,
and had :

(XVIII) Lady Eleanor De Holland,
who married (his first wife) Thomas De
Montacute, last Earl of Salisbury, and
had:

(XIX) Lady Alice De Montacute, who
married Sir Richard de Neville, K. G.,
created Earl of Salisbury, May 4, 1442;
lord great chamberlain of England, who
was beheaded for siding with the York-
ists in 1461, and whose head was fixed
upon a gate of the city of York, and had :

(XX) Lady Alice de Neville (sister of
Richard Neville, K. G., Earl of Salis-
bury and Warwick, the renowned "King
maker"), who married Henry, fifth Baron
Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, steward of the
honor of Richard and Lancaster, died
1472 and had:

(XXI) Lady Elizabeth Fitzhugh, who
married Sir William Parr, K. G., constable
of England, and had :

(XXII) William, Lord Parr of Hor-
ton, Northampton, died in 1546, who was
uncle of Katherine Parr, last wife of
Henry VIII. of England. He was cham-
berlain to her Majesty and was advanced
to the peerage, December 23, 1543. He
married Lady Mary, daughter of Sir Wil-
liam Salisbury, and had :

(XXIII) Lady Elizabeth Parr (she who
is also called Alice), who married (his
second wife) Sir Nicholas Woodhull,
Lord of Woodhull, county of Bedford,
died 1532, (see the Northamptonshire
Visitations, 1564 and 1618; the Yorkshire
Visitations, 1584, and Dugdale Baronage).

Woodhull Arms — Or, three crescents gules.
Crest — Out of a ducal coronet or, two wings ad-
dorsed gules.

(XXIV) Fulke Woodhull of Thenford
Manor, Northamptonshire, second son
and heir, and eldest son by Sir Nicholas
Woodhull's second wife ; married Alice,
daughter of William Coles or Colles of
Lye or Leigh, county of Worcester, and
had:

(XXV) Lawrence Woodhull, younger
son (brother of Nicholas, eldest son and
heir apparent in 1618, who had five sons
then living, his apparent heir being son
Gyles, born 1582, see Miscellanae Gene-
alogy et Heraldica IV, 417), father of:

(XXVI) Mary Woodhull, who married
(his second wife) William Nicolls, of
Islippe, Northamptonshire, and had:

(XXVII) John Nicolls, who married

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Joane, daughter and heir of George Graf-
ton, and had:

(XXVIII) Reverend Matthius Nicolls
(Church of England), who married, in
1630, Martha Oakes, of Leicestershire,
and had :

(XXIX) Captain Matthias Nicolls, born
at Islippe, Northamptonshire, 1621, a
graduate of Cambridge University, and a
lawyer of the Inner Temple. He was
appointed secretary of the commission
"to visit the colonies and plantations
known as New England," and commis-
sioned captain of the military force by the
Duke of York, before leaving England,
1664, to take Nieuw Amsterdam from the
Dutch, calling it New York; was secre-
tary of the province of New York, 1664-
1687; member of the King's Council,
1667-1680; speaker of the Provincial As-
sembly, 1683-84; judge of the Court of
Admiralty, 1686; mayor of New York,
1672, died December 22, 1687, and was
buried at Cow Neck, Long Island. He
married Abigail Johns, who administered
on his estate July 22, 1693. The Nicolls
arms are :

Arms — Argent, between two bendlets engrailed
gules, three eaglets displayed with wings inverted
sable. In chief, three crosses crosslet fitchee,
with a crescent for a difference. In base, three
crosses crosslet fitchee, all of the second.

Crest — An eagle rising sable, wings addorsed
and inverted, holding in its dexter claw a cross
crosslet fitchee gules.

Motto — Fide sed cut vide.

(XXX) Hon. William Nicoll, the emi-
nent lawyer, commonly called "the Pat-
entee," born 1657, at Islippe, Northamp-
tonshire, England, son of Captain Mat-
thias Nicolls. He was educated for the
bar. He came with his father to America
in 1664, and became a lawyer of great
prominence in New York. Early in No-
vember, 1695, he was appointed an agent
of the Province of New Jersey to go be-

fore the King in Council to settle the title
of lands received from the Indians and by
grant from Governor Nicolls of New
York, which was done to the satisfaction
of the settlers. From this he was admit-
ted an associate of Elizabethtown, with
a third lot right (Hetfield's History, page
242). He was a member of the Gov-
ernor's Council, New York, 1691-98; At-
torney-General of the Province, 1687;
member of the Provincial Assembly from
1701 to 1723. He purchased from Winne-
quaheagh, Sachem of Connectquut, a
tract of land on Long Island, embracing
originally one hundred square miles, but,
in consequence of sales made, the quan-
tity later owned by the family did not
exceed forty thousand acres, including
the Nicoll Manor at Islip, Long Island.
He also owned one-half of Shelter Island.
He was a vestryman of Trinity Church,
New York, 1698-1702, and died at Nicoll
Manor, in May, 1723. He married, in
1693, Anne (Anneken), daughter of Jere-
mias Van Rensselaer, and widow of her
cousin, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer of Water-
vliet, New York, patroon of the lordship
and manor of Rensselaerwyck (called
"the Great Patroon") and had :

(XXXI) Benjamin Nicoll, Esquire, born
at Islip, Long Island, 1694, who inherited
from his father the Islip Estate, known as
Nicoll Manor, and devoted himself to its
management until his death in 1724. He
married, in 1714, his first cousin, Charity,
daughter of Colonel Richard Floyd, 1665-
1728, of Suffolk county, New York, who
married Margaret Nicoll, daughter of
Hon. Matthias Nicoll. Charity (Floyd)
Nicoll married (second) September 26,
1725, Rev. Samuel Johnson, first presi-
dent of King's (afterwards Columbia)
College, and their son, Dr. William Sam-
uel Johnson, was the first president of
Columbia College. Benjamin and Charity
Nicoll had : William Nicoll, heir of Islip ;

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Benjamin Nicoll, Jr., of whom further;
and Gloriana Margaretta, married George
Maverick.

(XXXII) Benjamin Nicoll, Jr., second
son of Benjamin and Charity Nicoll,
born March 17, 171S, at Islip, Long
Island, graduated from Yale College in
■734-

He was a lawyer, and successively
incorporator, trustee and governor at
King's College, New York, a founder and
trustee of the Society Library, New York,
1754, and a vestryman of Trinity Church,
New York, 1751-60. He died April 15,
1760. It was said of him that "never in
the memory of man at New York was
anyone so lamented. His death was the
severest misfortune which had befallen
the College. It filled its friends with con-
sternation, for none was more able, wise
and zealous than he." He married Mary
Magdalen, daughter of Hon. Edward Hol-
land, mayor of the City of New York (see
Holland and Van Rensselaer) and had :

(XXXIII) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, born
August i<), 1754, died February 2, 1796.
He was a graduate of the University of
Edinburg, Scotland. 1776, pursued and
completed medical studies in Paris,
France ; was received at the Court of
Louis XVI., returned to New York, and
from 1792 until 1796 was professor of
chemistry at Columbia College. He mar-
ried (first) June 1, 1782, Anne, his second
cousin, daughter of Captain Winter Far-
gie, of the British army, and his wife, Eve
Holland, daughter of Henry Holland,
1704-1782, and had: Benjamin Charles,
died young; Frances Mary, mentioned be-
low; Eliza Ann, married Henry Oothout,
of Schenectady, New York ; William
Henry, unmarried, surgeon in the United
States army, died 1830, buried at Jeffer-
son Barracks, Missouri.

(XXXIV) Frances Mary Nicoll, born
December 17, 1785, at Stratford, Connec-

ticut. She married, April 13, 1809, (his
second wife) George Bloom Evertson,
1773-1829, of Poughkeepsie. New York,
and had :

(XXXV) Frances Mary Evertson, who
married William Amos Woodward, 1801-
1883, born in New London, Connecticut,
and had :

(XXXVI) Mary Nicoll Woodward, who
was married by the Rev. Caleb S. Henry,
January 30, 1867, to Erastus Gaylord Put-
nam (q. v.).

(Descent from Klliaen Van Rensselaer).

Arms — Gules, a cross moline, or.
Crest — A high basket, from which issue flames,
all proper.

Motto — Nimand sonder.

(I) Heer Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1580-
1646, first Patroon of the Manor of Rens-
selaersijck, 1630, son of Hendrik (and his
wife, Maria Pasraet), son of Kiliaen Jans-
zoon (and his wife, Nelle van Wenckom),
son of Jan Hendrickszoon (and his wife,
Derykebia Van Luxoel), son of Hendrick
Wolters, 1450 (and his wife, Swene Van
Indijck) ; married (first) Hillegonde van
Bijlaer, by whom he had Jehan, who mar-
ried Elizabeth van Twiller, who had
Kiliaen, the "Great Patroon." He mar-
ried (second) Anna, daughter of Jan van
Weely, administrator of the county of
Van Buren under the Prince of Orange.
The Van Weely arms :

Arms — Quarterly I and 4 gules, a lion rampant
or; 2, Argent, three roses gules; 3, Argent three
acorns vert, slipped of their leaves, the stems on
top.

Crest — A lion issuant or.

Heer Kiliaen Van Rensselaer had by
his wife, Anna van Weely :

(II) Colonel Jeremias Van Rensselaer,
1629-1674, the third Patroon. member of
the Colonial Assembly, and speaker in
1664. He married, July 12, 1662, Maria,

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daughter of Colonel Oloff Stevense Van
Cortlandt, 1600-1684 (Jeremias Van Rens-
selaer's letters, 1657-1659, are published
in the van Rensselaer Bowier MSS. at Al-
bany, New York, 1908), and had:

(III) Anne (Annetje) Van Rensselaer,
sister of Kiliaen, the fourth Patroon, and
first Lord of the Manor of Rensselaers-
wyck, married her cousin, Kiliaen Van
Rensselaer, the "Great Patroon," who
died February 22, 1687, without issue.
She married (second) the eminent law-
yer, William Nicoll, 1657-1723, patentee
of Islip, Long Island (see Royal descent
of Mrs. Putnam, XXX), and had:

(IV) Benjamin Nicoll, 1694-1724, mar-
ried his cousin, Charity Floyd, daughter
of Colonel Richard Floyd, and had :

(V) Benjamin Nicoll, Jr., 1718-1760,
married Magdalen Mary Holland, daugh-
ter of Hon. Edward Holland, mayor of
New York (see Holland and Boudinot),
and had :

(VI) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, 1754-1796.

(VII) Frances Mary Nicoll, married
Judge George Bloom Evertson.

(VIII) Frances Mary Evertson, mar-
ried William Amos Woodward.

(IX) Mary Nicoll Woodward, married
Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(Van Cortlandt Ancestry).

Arms — Argent, the four wings of a windmill
conjoined in saltire, sable, voided gules, between
five estoiles in cross of the last.

Crest — A star gules between two wings dis-
played, the dexter argent, the sinister sable.

Motto — Virtus sibi munus.

(I) The Right Honorable Steven Van
Cortlandt (born in 1576) was immedi-
ately descended from one of the most
noble families in Holland, his ancestors
having emigrated thither when deprived
of the sovereignty of Courland. The an-
cient Duchy of Courland formerly con-
stituted a portion of Livonia, but was

conquered by the Teutonic Knights in
1561. It subsequently became a fief of
Poland. After the fall of that power it
remained for a short time independent
under its own dukes, but in 1795 it was
united to Russia. In the early part of the
seventeenth century the Dukes of Cour-
land engaged in the military service of the
United Netherlands. The Dukes of Cour-
land appear to have been represented in
1610 by the Right Honorable Steven Van
Cortlandt in South Holland (Burke's
Peerage). By his wife Catherine he had:
(II) The Right Honorable Oloff Stev-
enson Van Cortlandt, born 1600, died
1683. Like his illustrious ancestors, he
chose the military profession. As early
as 1629 he was attached to the military
service of the Dutch West India Com-
pany and in 1637 came to this country.
He became one of the prominent citizens
of New Amsterdam and acquired a large
property, including a plot on the west side
of Broadway, New York City, two hun-
dred and thirty-eight feet front extend-
ing into the North river, and adjacent to
the present Cortlandt street. Of him the
historian of the New Netherlands says:
"He had the character of being a worthy
citizen and a man most liberal in his char-
ities." Among the marriage notices pub-
lished in the City of New York of those
who occupied a prominent position in the
history of those times, is the following:
"February 26, 1642, Oloff Stevenson Van
Cortlandt, of Wyck te Deurstude, in Hol-
land, to Anneken Lookermans." The
bride was sister of Govert Lookermans,
one of the leading merchants and magis-
trates of that city. Colonel Van Cort-
landt was a member of the Governor's
Council of "The Eight Men" in 1645, and
of "The Nine Men" in 1649-1652, of which
he was president in 1650. In 1659 he was
colonel of the burgher corps ; alderman of
the City of New York, 1666, 1667, 1671 ;

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orphan master, 1657 to 1662, and the last
burgomaster of New Amsterdam before
the English conquest, 1655-1666 (New
York Civil List, 1869, pp. 5, 6, 7). He
was a prosperous merchant and one of
the wealthiest men in New Amsterdam.
The Lookermans arms:

Arms — Per less, argent and or, in chief two
bars embattled, counterbattled gules; in base,
ses of the last.

Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt had by
his wife, Anneken Lookermans :

(III) Maria Van Cortlandt, born July
30, 1645, died January 29, 1689. She mar-
ried, July 12, 1662, Jeremias Van Rens-
selaer (see Van Rensselaer II), and had:

(IV) Anne Van Rensselaer, married
William Nicoll, and had:

(V) Benjamin Nicoll, married Charity
Floyd, and had :

(VI) Benjamin (2) Nicoll, married
Magdalen Mary Holland, and had:

(VII) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, married Anne
Fargie, and had :

(VIII) Frances Mary Nicoll married
George Bloom Evertson, and had :

(IX) Frances Mary Evertson, married
William Amos Woodward, and had:

(X) Mary Nicoll Woodward, married
Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(Floyd Ancestry).

Arms — Argent, a cross sable.
Crest — A griffin segreant azure, holding in dex-
ter claw a garland of laurel leaves, vert

(I) Colonel Richard Floyd, the com-
mon ancestor of the Floyds of Long
Island, was a native of Wales, coming to
America about the middle of the seven-
teenth century, locating at Setauket in
1656. Nothing further is known of his
wife other than her name was Susanna,
and that she died in January, 1706. aged
eighty years. Richard Floyd acquired a

considerable estate, partly by purchase
and partly by the division of lands among
the first settlers, he being one of the fifty-
five original proprietors of Brookhaven.
He is believed to have died about 1700,
his lands in part yet being owned by de-
scendants of the sixth generation. He
had a son :

(II) Colonel Richard Floyd, born May
12, 1665, died in Connecticut, February
28, 1728. He inherited most of his father's
estate, and was for many years a judge of
Suffolk county. New York, and a colonel
of militia. He was a man of high intelli-
gence and sterling character, influential
and highly respected. He married, Sep-
tember 10, 1686, Margaret Nicoll, daugh-
ter of Colonel Matthias Nicolls (see line of
Royal Descent XXIX), and sister of Wil-
liam Nicoll, patentee of the Islip estate.
Margaret Nicoll was born May 30, 1662,
died February 1, 1718. They had seven
children: 1. Susanna, born May 25, 1688.
2. Margaret, May 25, 1688. 3. Charity,
mentioned below. 4. Eunice. 5. Ruth.
6. Richard, born December 29, 1703, died
April 1, 1771, inherited the paternal estate,
was a highly useful, intelligent man, and,
like his father, a judge and a colonel.
He married Elizabeth Hutchinson, born
March 28, 1709, died April 16, 1778, daugh-
ter of Benjamin Hutchinson. They had:
Richard, Elizabeth, John, Margaret, Ben-
jamin, Gilbert, William, Samuel, Mary
and Anne. 7. Nicoll, born August 27,
1705, died 1752, father of General Wil-
liam Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence.

(III) Charity Floyd, born April 6, 1692,
died June 1, 1758. She married (first) in
1714, Benjamin Nicoll. Children: Wil-
liam Nicoll, who inherited the manor at
Islip, Long Island; Benjamin Nicoll (see
Royal Descent XXXII) ; Glorianna Mar-
garetta Nicoll, married George Maverick.
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the chancel of Old Trinity Church, New
York. Their tombstone is now at the
right of the vestibule in the pavement.
Samuel Nicoll's vault is near the Law-
rence monument.

(IV) Benjamin Nicoll, Jr., married
Magdalen Mary Holland, and had :

(V) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, married Anne
Fargie, and had :

(VI) Frances Mary Nicoll, married
George B. Evertson, and had :

(VII) Frances Mary Evertson, mar-
ried William Amos Woodward, and had :

(VIII) Mary Nicoll Woodward, mar-
ried Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(Holland Ancestry).

Arms — Argent, a chevron between three fleurs-
de-lis, gules.
Crest — A lion rampant, or.
Motto — Libertas et natale solum.

(I) Captain Henry Holland, "born Au-
gust 28, 1661, at Ormkirk in Lancashire,
in Old England, died in Albany, New
York, May 6, 1736, and was buried under
the north side of the communion table in
St. Peter's Church, in the city of Albany,
on Saturday, 8th of May, 1736, at a half
an hour after four o'clock in the after-
noon" (Ed. Holland's Bible). He was
lieutenant in 1699 of an independent com-
pany of Fusileers stationed at Albany,
in the province of New York, captain
1704; commander of garrison at Albany,
l723-*732; high sheriff, 1706-1710, and
from 1720-1722 commissioner of Indian
affairs (Calendar of Historical Manu-
scripts in the office of Secretary of State,
Albany, E. B. O. Callahan, part II, pp.
268, 294, 300, 480, 805 ; New York Gene-
alogical and Biographical Record, vol. ix,
No. 3, July, 1878, p. 129; New York Civil
List, 1869, pp. 41, 57). In 1732 he became
incapacitated "by the Province of Al-
mighty God."

He married Jennie (Jane) Sehly, born

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at Brandon, in the county of Cork, in
Ireland, August 5, 1676, died in New
York City, September 12, 1756, and in-
terred in Edward Holland's vault in Trin-
ity Churchyard, New York, and had issue :
Mary, baptized 9 February, 1701 ; Ed-
ward, mentioned below ; Henry, men-
tioned below; Sehley (Zelia), baptized 5
January, 1707, married Peter Livingston
(records of Albany Dutch Church).
The Sehly arms:

Arms — Gules, a chevron between three owls
argent, beaked and legged or.

Crest— A demi-lion rampant ermine, ducally
crowned or, holding a cross crosslet fitchee gold.

(II) Edward Holland, born in Albany,
New York, baptized in the old Dutch
Church, 6 September, 1702. His sponsors
were "My Lord Cornbury" (His Excel-
lency, Edward Hyde, Lord Viscount
Cornbury, was Governor of New York,
and afterwards succeeded his father as
Earl of Clarendon), and "Maria Van
Rensselaer." He was mayor of Albany,
J733-4i : commissioner of Indian affairs,
1734-42; mayor of New York, 1747-57;
member of Colonial Council, 1748-56;
master, Court of Chancery, 1748-50; ves-
tryman of Trinity Church, New York,
1 745-57- In August, 1746, when Philip
Van Cortlandt, one of the council, died,
Governor Clinton appointed "Edward
Holland, Esq., a gentleman of fortune and
character," as he states, to succeed him.
In 1747 he owned the brigantines "Wil-
liam/' Captain John River, and "The Two
Friends," Captain Thomas Seymour,
which he petitioned might be used as
flags of truce to carry French prisoners
to Cape Francois.

He was married (first) June 24, 1726,
by Mr. Molinaer, minister of the French
church, to Madeleine Mary, daughter of
Thomas Bayeuxand Madeleine Boudinot.
Children: 1. Magdalen Mary, mentioned

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below. 2. Jane, born September 21, 1729;
marriage license, 31 January, 1757, with
Lambert Moore, Esq., Deputy Secretary
of New York ; Comptroller of Customs,
and clerk of Trinity Church. She died
Sunday, 14 June, 1767, aged thirty-seven,
and was interred the next evening in the
family vault at Trinity. (Issue not men-
tioned). 3. Ann, baptized 15 October,
1732, died young. 4. Elizabeth, born
April 17, 1731 ; married Joseph Hopkins;
no children ; she died at Coeymans, New
York, in 1815. Edward Holland married
(second) December 10, 1739, by the Rev.
Mr. Charlton, Frances, the youngest child
of Hon. William Nicoll and Anne Van
Rensselaer. Obituary: "She was a conv
position of merit and good sense." One
child: Henry Holland, born 15 Decem-
ber, 1742, died 7 October, 1774, unmar-
ried. Edward Holland died in the city
of New York, on Wednesday, November
10, 1756, and was interred the next day in
his vault in Trinity Church. His will
was signed two days before his de-
cease. Brother Henry Holland, Esq., of
New York, and brother-in-law, Benjamin
Nicoll, as executors. Proved 12 Febru-
ary- r759 (Lib. XXI, 209). His daughter,

(III) Magdalen Mary Holland. Family
Bible of Edward Holland: "June 18, 1727.
This morning, being Saturday, about 4
o'clock, my wife was brought to bed of
a daughter, who was baptized the same
day by Mr. Peters van Driezen, and had
for her godfather, Captain Henry Hol-
land, and for her godmother, Magdalen
Bayeux ; was named Mary Magdalen."
She married Benjamin Nicoll, (no date),
and had :

(IV) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, who married
his second cousin, Anne Fargie. and had :

(V) Frances Mary Nicoll, who mar-
ried George B. Evertson, and had :

(VI) Frances Mary Evertson, who mar-
ried William Amos Woodward, and had :

(VII) Mary Nicoll Woodward, who
married Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(lli Henry Holland, second son of
Captain Henry Holland, was born in Al-
bany, New York, baptized 1 March, 1704,
will proved 22 May, 1782 (register's
office, New York). His sponsors were
"Captain Matthews, Captain Shenks and
Madam Winks." He was alderman, 1727;
sheriff of Albany, 1739-1746; removed to
New York ; member of Provincial Assem-
bly from Richmond county, 1 761-1769;
incorporator of the Society Library of
New York, November 25, 1772; in 1765
one of the managers on part of the prov-
ince of New York, in the controversy
concerning the partition line between that
province and New Jersey. In 1770 he
was a master in chancery for appraising
and settling real estate, by order of the
court. He was interested in 1756 in the
privateer brigantine "Hawk," thirty-four
guns, Captain John Alexander, and the
ship "Blakeney," fifty-four guns. Captain
John White.

He married, 14 December, 1728, Alida,
baptized 29 November, 1702; sponsors
Johannes Vanhaegel and Debora Hansse,
died 13 September, 1748, daughter of Jo-
hannes Martense Beeckman, buried Sep-
tember 30, 1732, patentee of the Kayer-
derosseras patent, Saratoga county, New
York, November 2, 1708, and his wife,
Eve Vinhaegen, married, October 26,
1692, buried August 28, 1746, son of Mar-
ten and Susannah Beeckman (O'Calla-
ghan's Manuscripts, Part II, pp. 659-65-
756, 173, 83, 94, 805. pp. 33, 47. 57; The
Charter and By-Laws, New York Society
Library, 1773, p. 2), and had:

(III) Eve Holland, born in Albany,
New York, baptized 27 June, 1736; mar-
riage license 24 May, 1757, with Winter
Fargie, captain in the British army (New
York Marriage Licenses previous to
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who married Dr. Samuel Nicoll, June I,
1782; Elizabeth, born November 12, 1766,
died 1792, buried in Trinity Churchyard,
in Henry Holland's vault, married, March
4, 1784, Dr. John Onderdonk, died June
11, 1786; Alida, who married, as his sec-
ond wife, Cornelius Roosevelt, and had
Eliza Roosevelt, who married Walter
Evertson, and had Maria Elizabeth Evert-
son, who married Dr. John Brigham.
Captain Fargie on one of his visits to
England bought three emerald rings set
with diamonds for his three daughters.
Mrs. Onderdonk left hers to her sister,
Mrs. Roosevelt; one was lost and the
other was stolen. Mrs. Nicoll's ring is
now in possession of her great-grand-
daughter, Mrs. Putnam.
The Fargie arms :

Arms — Azure, a chevron surmounted by a
crescent between two mullets argent. In base
a beech tree or, debruising the chevron.

Crest — A mullet or.

Motto — Vis et amor. (Strength and Love.)

(IV) Anne Fargie, married, June 1,
1782, Dr. Samuel Nicoll, and had:

(V) Frances Mary Nicoll, who mar-
ried George B. Evertson, and had:

(VI) Frances Mary Evertson, who
married William Amos Woodward, and
had:

(VII) Mary Nicoll Woodward, who
married Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(Boudinot Ancestry).

Arms— Azure, a chevron between two mullets
in chief and a heart or, flames proper issuing
therefrom, in point.

Crest — A laurel wreath with berries, all proper.

Motto — Solideo gloria et honor.

The old Protestant registers of bap-
tisms, marriages and interments at Mar-
ans are preserved in the archives of the
Consistory of La Rochelle, France.

(I) Jean Boudinot married Marie Suire ;

his name appears in registry October 17,
1669; an entry September 15, 1680, speaks
of him and wife as deceased. Their chil-
dren were : Jean, married Marie Brechet ;
Pierre, married Jeanne Guis ; Elie, mar-
ried Jeanne Baraud; Judith, married
Pierre Vigoureux; Esther; Marie. To
the name of each brother and of the
brother-in-law Vigoureux, Le Sieur, is
prefixed.

(II) Le Sieur Elie Boudinot, son of
Jean and Marie (Suire) Boudinot, came
from Aunis, a suburb of the seaport of
La Rochelle, which had been the strong-
hold of the Huguenot faith and fighting
for nearly seventy years, and which,
though dismantled and spoiled of its an-
cient honors, was still the home of many
of their wealthiest and most influential
families. Le Sieur Helie Boudinot (as
he is called in these records) was a mer-
chant of ample means and eminent stand-
ing, an elder of the Huguenot church.
His name occurs more than once in the
records of judicial prosecutions against
him for adhering to his faith. He mar-
ried Jeanne Baraud, by whom he had
five children, four of whom, with their
mother, died in France. Immediately
upon the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, Boudinot, with his son, Elie, Jr.,
escaped to England, where, on the 20
of March, 1686, he obtained letters of
denization from King James II. Elie
Boudinot made but a brief stay in Lon-
don, but long enough to marry there, No-
vember 2, 1686, Susanne Papin, widow
of Benjamin d'Harriette, who, with her
son, Benjamin d'Harriette, had fled from
France. She was such an ardent Prot-
estant that to escape she had to be rolled
down to the ship in a barrel. There were
four children by this marriage : John,
Benjamin, Madeleine, and Susanne. Early
in the year 1687 Elias Boudinot, with his
family, was residing in New York, where

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he united with Mr. Pretre in organizing
the Huguenot church, of which he be-
came the first elder. The old church
stood on the ground now covered by the
Produce Exchange Building. The new
French church "du Saint Esprit," the fifth
in descent from the Huguenot church, has
a commemorative tablet to Elie Boudinot,
His daughter Madeleine married Thomas
Bayeux.
The Papin arms :

Arms — Gules, five fusils or, posed bendwise.

(III) Madeleine Boudinot, married
Thomas Bayeux, and had :

(IV) Madeleine Mary Bayeux, who
married Hon. Edward Holland, and had:

(V) Magdalen Mary Holland, who
married Benjamin Nicoll, and had:

(VI) Dr. Samuel Nicoll, who married
Anne Fargie, and had :

(VII) Frances Mary Nicoll, who mar-
ried George B. Evertson, and had :

(VIII) Frances Mary Evertson, who
married William Amos Woodward, and
had:

(IX) Mary Nicoll Woodward, who
married Erastus Gaylord Putnam.

(Bayeux Ancestry).

Arms — Per bend azure and or, in base an oak
tree proper, on a mount vert.
Crest — A demi-lion rampant or.

Thomas Bayeux, a Huguenot refugee,
merchant, was made freeman of the City
of New York, May 10, 1705; married by
license, dated July 14, 1703, Madeleine
Boudinot, daughter of Elie Boudinot and
Susanne Papin (Mad. d'Harriette; see
Boudinot Line). They had eight chil-
dren baptized in the French church, born
between 1708 and 1725. Thomas Bayeux
died 1742, leaving his house in King
street. New York, and all his "real and
personal estate in the Kingdom of France"

to his only son, Thomas, who married
Mary Lispenard. His daughter Marie
married the Rev. Richard Charlton, and
Anne married John Groesbeck.

Madeleine Mary Bayeux, eldest daugh-
ter of Thomas, married, June 24. 1726,
Hon. Edward Holland. She was born in
New York, July 21, 1706, died in Albany,
New York, March 24, 1737, and was
buried in the English Church on Satur-
day the 26th, and had:

Magdalen Mary Holland, married Ben-
jamin Nicoll, Jr., and had:

Dr. Samuel Nicoll, married Anne Far-
gie, and had:

Frances Mary Nicoll, married George
B. Evertson, and had :

Frances Mary Evertson, married Wil-
liam Amos Woodward, and had :

Mary Nicoll Woodward, married Eras-
tus Gaylord Putnam.

(Evertson Ancestry).

Arms — Argent, on two bars wavy vert, three
single masted boats, two in chief and one in fesse,
all proper.

Crest — Full rigged ship with sails furled, all
proper, two mastheads or.

Supporters — Two wyverns erect vert, garnished
or and langued gules.

(I) Evert Hendricssen, Stamvader, der
Evertson Scheepsbevelhebber (ship cap-
tain), gestorben (died) 1601 ; getroud
(married) first, Lentje Leynse, and had:

(II) Johan Evertson, de Kapitein, died
in battle at sea, 1617; married Maayken
Jana, who died in 1647, and had:

(III) Johan Evertson, Knight of the
Order of St. Michael, Lieutenant-Admiral
Van Zeeland, born 1600, died August 5,
1666: slain in a sea fight against the Eng-
lish; married, 1622, Maayken Cornelis-
sen Gorcoms, daughter of Cornelius Jan-
sen Gorcoms, sea captain. (His younger
brother, Cornelius Evertson de Cude, was
slain in the same battle). He had two

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sons: Cornelius Evertson de Jongste,
lieutenant-admiral Van Zeeland in 1684,
and Gelyn Evertson, lieutenant-admiral
in 1707. Admiral Johan Evertson had a
son, Cornells de Jonge, who was Vice-
Admiral Van Zeeland in 1666, making the
traditionary five admirals in the family,
also had:

(IV) Evert Evertson, born 1630, lived
in Weesp, Holland, a residential suburb
of Amsterdam. He went to the West
Indies probably in the expedition of his
cousin, Cornells Evertson de Jongste, in
1672. He left property in the Island of
Tobago, inherited by his great-grandson,
Jacob. He had:

(V) Nicholas Evertson, born Decem-
ber 27, 1659, at two o'clock in the morn-
ing, in Weesp, Holland. His will was
proved October 24, 1723. He married,
December 25, 1679, Marie van Huyge,
born 1664. Their daughter, Willemyntje,
was born 1686, at Monichendam, Hol-
land. He later came to this country, and
was captain of New York troops in an
expedition against a French privateer in
1704. He married (second) June 9, 1698,
Margaret Van Baal, daughter of Jan
Hendrickse Van Baal, and had:

(VI) Nicholas Evertson, born May 24,
1699, in New York City, baptized in the

rampant gules, in base or, three martins close
sable.

Crest — A demi-codfish argent decollated and
surmounted by a ducal crown or.

(VII) Jacob Roeters Evertson (he
dropped the middle name), born at South
Amboy, New Jersey, January 3, 1734,
died May 1, 1807; son of Nicholas and
Susanna (Roeters) Evertson. He mar-
ried, October 29, 1761, Margaret, daugh-
ter of George Bloom, born August 29,
1744, died November 18, 1807.

The Bloom arms:

Arms — Azure, a dexter hand couped at the
wrist argent.

Crest — A cubit arm erect, habited azure, cuff
argent, holding in the hand proper some slips of
broom, stalked vert, blossomed or.

Jacob Roeters Evertson moved to
Amenia, New York, in 1762, where he
came into possession by inheritance of
about seventeen hundred acres of land
"laying in the Nine Partners in Dutchess
County, New York." His uncle, John
Evertson, was one of the Nine Partners,
recorded John Artsen. In 1763 Jacob
built a large brick house in a superior
manner, which is well preserved. His
daughter Margaret was the wife of Gov-
ernor John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut.

Dutch Church, New York, died at South The portraits of Jacob Evertson and his

Amboy, New Jersey, March 17, 1783. He
acquired a fine property, consisting of
valuable clay banks on Raritan Bay,
where he is buried. He was judge of
Common Pleas, and Quarter Sessions of
the Peace, Middlesex county, New Jer-
sey, 1746, and justice of the peace of Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, 1747. He mar-
ried Susanna, daughter of Jacob Roeters.
The Roeters arms :

Arms — Per pale. Dexter side, azure, three
codfish argent decollated, and each surmounted
with a crown or, one in chief and two in base.
Sinister side, per fess, in chief argent a lion

wife, preserved in the mansion at Sharon,
Connecticut, show them to have been of
fine personal appearance. Jacob Evert-
son moved about 1795 to Pleasant Valley,
Dutchess county, New York, where he
died, and was buried in the graveyard of
the Presbyterian church. He was elected
a deputy from Dutchess county to the
second Provincial Congress of New York,
1775-1776, and had:

(VIII) George Bloom Evertson, born
February 20, 1773, near Amenia, Dutch-
ess county, New York, died at Ithaca,
Tompkins county, New York, August
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12, 1829, where he is buried. He mar-
ried (first) Cornelia, daughter of Dr.
Peter Tappen, born March II, 1774, died
January 29, 1808. Children : 1. John, died
young. 2. Elizabeth, died unmarried. 3.
Peter Tappen, died young. 4. John Roe-
ters, married, and left descendants ; one
son, Evert, died in Honduras. 5. Cor-
nelia, married Dr. Benjamin S. Halsey,
and had : George Evertson, Clinton,

Helen Tappen (married Granger) ;

Tappen, and William Davies. George
Bloom Evertson married (secondly)
Frances Mary Nicoll, born December 17,
1785, died March 24, 1861, daughter of Dr.
Samuel Nicoll. Children: 1. Ann Nicoll,
died young. 2. Frances Mary, married
William A. Woodward (see Woodward).
3. Margaret Maria Bloom, married. 1830,
Hart G. Lee (second. Rev. Mr. Ken-
nedy), and had: James Wright Lee,
married Rhoda Carlton ; and Georgiana
Frances, married James M. Douglass. 4.
Adelaide Elizabeth, married Samuel
Moore McKay, and had: Robert Riddell,
married Eliza Hun; Adelaide Elizabeth,
married William L. Hubbard ; Margaret
Greenwood, married Hermanus Barkulo
Hubbard; Mary Woodward, married
Franklin Quinby. 5. Catherine Lewis,
married John D. Dix, and had (now liv-
ing) : George Woodward Dix and Lena
Augusta. 6-7. Walter Davies and Eliza
Ann, twins ; she died unmarried ; he mar-
ried Ann Mary Fathernee, and had :
Alice Nicoll, David Barrow, George
James (married Susan Davis), Mary
Eliza, Walter Lee, Annie Elizabeth, and
Adelaide McKay.

George Bloom Evertson had sixteen
children ; the last four of second marriage
died in infancy.

Arms — Azure, a lion or, holding in paws a
bezant.
Crest— A lion salient, or.

Wilhelmus Teller, the first settler, mer-
chant, of Xew York, was born in 1620.
In a deposition made July 6, 1698, he said
that he arrived in this province in the
year 1639; was sent to Fort Orange by
Governor Kieft ; served there as corporal,
and was then advanced to be wachtmaes-
ter of the fort ; that he had continued his
residence at Albany from 1639 till 1692,
with some small intermissions, and one
short voyage to Holland. He was a
trader for about fifty years in Albany,
from whence he removed to New York
in 1692, and continued in business there
till his death in 1701. In his will made
March 19, 1698, proved 1701, he spoke of
but six of his nine children then living,
viz.: Andries, Helena, Elizabeth, Wil-
lem, Johannes, and Jannetie ; and though
a prosperous merchant, the inventory of
his property amounted only to £910 10s
2d. There is reason to believe, however,
that he had distributed most of his estate
among his children before his death. He
was one of the early proprietors of Sche-
nectady in 1662, though he never resided
there permanently, and one of the five
patentees mentioned in the first patent of
the town in 1684.

His first wife, Margaret Donckesen,
died before 1664, in which year he made
a marriage contract with Maria Verlett,
widow of Paulus Schrick. His children
were: 1. Andries, born 1642. 2. Helena,
born 1645, mentioned below. 3. Maria,
born 1648. 4. Elizabeth, born 1652. 5.
Jacob, born 1655. 6. Willem, born 1657.
7. Johannes, born 1659. The following
were his children by his second wife :
Caspar and Jannetie. Eight of his chil-
dren are known to have married and had
families. Helena Teller, born 1645, mar-
ried (first) Cornelis, son of Rev. Ever-
ardus and Anneke (Janse) Bogardus ;
married (second) Jan Hendrickse Van
Baal, free trader in Beverwyck (Albany),

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1661-78; she became a communicant of
the Dutch church in New York, August
29, 1683, and was then the widow of Van
Baal. She married there, September 26,
1683, Francis Rombout, mayor of New
York in 1679; their daughter, Kathryn,
married Roger Brett. He died in 1691. His
widow Helena made her will November
20, 1706, proved March 4, 1707, in which
she mentioned her eldest son, Cornelis
Bogardus ; her youngest daughter Cath-
erine, wife of Isaac De Peyster; Mar-
garet, wife of Nicholas Evertson ; Helena,
wife of Dominie Gualtherus DuBois ;
their daughter Margaret married Cap-
tain Alexander McLean ; Rachel, wife
of Petrus Bayard; and Hannah, non com-
pos mentis. Margaret VanBaal married
Nicholas Evertson, and had Nicholas
Evertson (2d), who married Susanna
Roeters ; they had Jacob Evertson, who
married Margaret Bloom ; they had
George Bloom Evertson, who married
Frances Mary Nicoll ; they had Frances
Mary Evertson, who married William A.
Woodward ; they had Mary Nicoll Wood-
ward, who married Erastus G. Putnam.

Arms — Azure, two swords hilted or, placed in
saltire.

Jan Hendrickse Van Baal was born in
1636, in Holland, and died in Albany,
New York, in 1682. He was a free trader
in Beverwyck (Albany), 1661-1678. Be-
sides houses and land in the village, he
had a patent for a large tract of land on
the Norman Kill, which was sold to Omy
La Grange and Johannes Syronse Veeder
for £250. He was magistrate of Fort
Orange, and Indian commissioner in
1664, 1666, 1670, 1672; and cornet in troop
of Captain Jeremias Van Rensselaer. He
signed the word "Commissaris" after his
name, which means judge of the Court of

Admiralty. His wife was Helena Teller,
widow of the Rev. Cornelis Bogardus.
They had an only son, Hendrick, who
died before 1716. He devised to his sis-
ters a large property, the Minisink Pat-
ent, lying in Ulster and Sullivan counties,
New York (a part of this tract descended
to George Bloom Evertson). Their
daughters were: Hannah, non compos
mentis; Maria, married Isaac de Peyster,
a merchant of New York, December 27,
1687; Margaret, married Captain Nicho-
las Evertson, a mariner of New York,
marriage license dated December 13,
1697; Rachel, married (first) Henry
Wileman of New York, (second) Petrus
Bayard; Helena, married, January 1,
1700, Dominie Gualterius (Walter) Du
Bois, pastor of the Dutch Church, New
York, from 1699 to 1751, ancestor of John
Wylie Barrow, who married Harriet
Bowen Woodward, and had issue: Wil-
liam Woodward, married Florence Daw-
son ; Margaret Du Bois ; Anna Evertson ;
Archibald Campbell, married Elizabeth
Fraser; Mabel Rosalie, married Charles
Noel Edge.

Margaret Van Baal, married Captain
Nicholas Evertson, and had :

Hon. Nicholas Evertson, married Sus-
anna Roeters, and had :

Jacob Evertson, married Margaret
Bloom, and had:

George B. Evertson, married Frances
Mary Nicoll, and had :

Frances Mary Evertson, married Wil-
liam Amos Woodward, and had:

Mary Nicoll Woodward, married Eras-
tus Gaylord Putnam.

(Beeckman Ancestry).

Arms — Azure, a running brook in bend, wavy
argent, between two roses or.
Crest — Two wings sable, addorsed.
Motto — Mens conscia recti.

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Marten Beeckman, born about 1660,
was buried September 30, 1732. He was
one of the patentees of the Kayaderos-
seras, or Queensboro Patent, located in
Saratoga county, New York, patent dated
November 2, 1708. By his first wife,
Machtel Schermerhorn, he had five chil-
dren. He married (second) October 26,
1692, Eve Vinhaegen. She was buried
August 28, 1746.

The Vinhaegen arms :

Arms — Azure, a bend argent, in chief a leg
armoured and spurred of the second, in base a
fox passant or, on a mount (terrace) vert.

Crest— The fox of the shield.

Motto — Scrvat et arcet.

Marten Beeckman had by his wife, Eve
Vinhaegen, ten children, the sixth being:

Alida Beeckman, baptized November
29, 1702, died September 13, 1748. Her
baptismal sponsors were Johannes Vin-
haegel and Debora Hansse. She married,
in 1728, Henry Holland (see Holland)
and had :

Eve Holland, married Captain Winter
Fargie, and had :

Anne Fargie, married Dr. Samuel
Nicoll, and had :

Frances Mary Nicoll, married George
B. Evertson, and had:

Frances Mary Evertson, married W. A.
Woodward, and had :

Mary Nicoll Woodward, married E. G.
Putnam.

(Woodward Ancestry).

Arms — Argent, a saltire azure between four
woodpeckers proper.

Crest — A demi-lion rampant sable holding be-
tween the paws a pheon or.

Motto — Gardes bien.

The surname Woodward has under-
gone several changes since the Domesday
Survey, when it was written "Wadard."
The origin has been quite clearly estab-

lished as from "Wood" and "Ward." An-
ciently "le Wodeward" was the title of
an officer in charge of wood and wards,
his very name denoting his calling. Many
and romantic are the tales of these "le
Wodewards," who by law were com-
manded to carry no bow or arrows, but
only a hatchet, for "the Woodward"
ought to appear at every justice seat, and
when he is called he must present his
hatchet to the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre.
The visitation disclosed that both John
and Thomas Woodward were descended
from John le Wodeward, Ranger of Ar-
den Forest early in the fifteenth century,
whose grandson, John Wodeward, of
Solihull, married Petronella de Clinton,
daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de
Clinton of Baddesley, and a scion of the
younger line of the great and noble fam-
ily of Clinton.

(I) Nathaniel Woodward, a civil engi-
neer, probably came from Boston, Eng-
land, to Boston, Massachusetts. He was
mentioned in a record in Boston, No-
vember, 1635. His wife's name was Mar-
garet, and they had children : John ; Rob-
ert, died November 21, 1653; and Pru-
dence ; Thomas.

(II) Thomas Woodward, of Muddy
River, Brookline, settled on land con-
veyed to his father, Nathaniel, by the
town of Boston. He had two sons, and
six daughters — the sons: Thomas, born
January 14, 1659, no issue; and Robert.

(III) Robert Woodward, born Septem-
ber 10, 1673. The only record of him is
the item that in 1729 the town of Brook-
line abated his taxes.

(IV) Thomas Woodward, born about
1700, died in 1778, his will probated at
Stonington, Connecticut, July 22 of that
year. He leaves property in his will to
"his beloved son Park." He joined the
church April 17, 1726, his wife Dorothy,
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lived in the southern part of Preston, also
owned land in Stonington, where he is
believed to have died. He was one of the
six organizers of the Separatist Church
in Preston, March 17, 1745, and the church
was built not far from his home. He
married at Preston, May 18, 1725, Doro-
thy Park, daughter of Robert Park; had
among others a son:

(V) Park Woodward, born March 21,
1726, baptized at the First Church, Pres-
ton, July 31, 1726. The following narra-
tive is from the pen of William A. Wood-
ward:

Park Woodward, my grandfather, resided in
Stonington, now North Stonington, in 1759. In
that year, April 9, he purchased land, 47J4 acres,
from Ebenezer Freeman, near the Preston town
line, for £400, and May 28th a tract adjoining
from John Pendleton for £72. At one time he
was at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, about the
time of the Revolution. While there he con-
tracted to build a bridge. The contract was in
the hands of Mrs. Matilda Smith, his grand-
daughter, who said that he could not collect the
pay for it. During the war (Revolution) he was
purchasing supplies of cattle and horses for the
army, and was paid in Continental money, much
of which became worthless on his hands. After
that he was in Stonington again, and in 1789
took an active part in advocating the adoption
of the constitution of the United States, making
addresses to the people. At one time he joined
an emigrating party to Nova Scotia, but did not
remain long. In his later days he was a Univer-
salis! preacher and exhorter, and wrote a book:
"The Triumph of Faith," which he published in
the early part of this century. This was printed
by Ebenezer Cady (Cady & Eels), of New Lon-
don. As far as I can learn, he was not successful
in middle and later life; he was very active and
intelligent, a brilliant speaker and conversation-
alist, and fond of an argument on almost any
subject. In his old age he was provided for by
my father, upon a farm at Riverhead, in the town
of Lyme, where he died on 18th November, 1808,
in the eighty-third year of his age. He was
buried in the second burying ground in New
London. The funeral was from my father's
house in John (opposite to Potter) street. This
is a brick house, built by my uncle, John Wood-

ward, about 1800, the house in which I was born
in 1801. My uncle occupied this house until his
death, in 1805, and my father until it was sold to
Captain John Wood in 1810. Captain Wood was
a shipmaster in the employ of John and Amos
Woodward, who had their stores and store-
houses on the other end of the same lot, front-
ing on John and Beach streets. I remember to
have seen his signature about sixty-five years
ago. He was twice married; by the first mar-
riage he had five sons and two daughters; by the
second, one daughter. At his second marriage,
his children all left his house and took my father,
then an infant under two years, who went with
his oldest sister to Vermont with her husband,
John Potter. When the old gentleman came
home with his new wife, there was no one to
greet them. They were reconciled, however, and
all the children became much attached to their
stepmother, whom they loved and honored to the
day of her death.

His first wife and two sons died of smallpox,
about the year 1771. One of the sons went to
New York and took the disease. They were all
buried by order of the board of health on Powder
Island, near Fort Trumbull. The funeral pro-
cession was in boats, which were kept at a dis-
tance while one only, with the body, came to
land. This was before vaccination was practiced.
The other members of the family were sent to
the hospital and inoculated with smallpox, and
all recovered. Park Woodward's children were:

Asa, who lived and died at Riverhead, on a
farm owned by my father; he was nearly ninety
years of age. He had many children, and some
of his descendants may now be found in Michi-
gan. His daughter. Phebe, married Ephraim R.
Otis, merchant of New London, and afterwards
a cotton manufacturer at Greenville, where they
both died.

My uncle John was born 19th July, 1751; he
was married to Deborah Bailey, daughter of
Nathan Bailey, of New London, in 1776. He
died 7th January, 1805, aged fifty-three. She died
November 20, 1822, aged seventy. They had no
children.

Seth and Enoch died of smallpox, as before
stated, both young men, unmarried.

Amos (my father), was born nth January,
1769, and died 2d November, 1814, aged forty-
six. He was married to Elizabeth Bailey, daugh-
ter of Nathan Bailey and sister of Deborah
Woodward, on 26th February, 1792. She was
born 2d December, 1765, and died at Ithaca,
New York, where she is buried, February II,
1851, aged eighty-six. They had eight children.

Park Woodward had two daughters by his
first wife, Charity and Wealthy, and one, Lucy,

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by second wife. Charity, the eldest child, was
married to John Potter, of New London, and
they removed to Pawlet, Vermont, and settled
on a farm. She took with her my father, then an
infant. They have left numerous descendants.
Wealthy married Mr. floldcn, by whom she had
one son, Asa Holden. At the close of the Revo-
lution she married Simeon Fuller, who had
served under Baron Steuben, by whom he was
induced to seek a settlement in Steuben, Oneida
county, New York, where he took up and culti-
vated a large farm which still belongs to the
family. They had five children. Simeon, of
Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio; John, of Alexandria Bay,
New York; Russell, who remained and died on
the homestead; Catherine, who married John
Pierce; Mary, the daughter of Russell, married
Henry Stanton, of Trenton Falls.

Asa Holden was a respectable farmer in Rem-
sen. Afterwards he became a Mormon fanatic
and removed to Salt Lake City.

Lucy, youngest daughter of Park Woodward,
was married to Oliver Coats (Coates), who was
a successful farmer; during the war with Eng-
land he engaged in the grocery business as Otis
& Coats, in New London. Had son, Giles K.
Coats.

Amos and Elizabeth Woodward had eight chil-
dren: John, was born 8th February, 1793, and
was drowned from on board the ship "Manlius,"
Captain Levi Joy, on his passage from London
to New York, 1st October, 1809, in the seven-
teenth year of his age.

Henry, the second son, was born 14th Febru-
ary, 1795; was married to Mary Wheeler, of
Trenton, Oneida county, New York, about 1833,
and died 4th September, 1846, in his fifty-second
year. They had four children: John, Catherine,
Frances Mary and Henry. The latter died
young. One of the girls is married, and lives in
Oneida county, New York.

Eliza Terry was born 3rd March, 1797; mar-
ried Joshua S. Lee, son of Doctor Samuel Lee
of Windham, Connecticut, on 13th June, 1823, at
New London. They removed to Ithaca, Xew
York, where-J. S. Lee was settled in the drug
business (firm of Lee & Raxter). Eliza T. Lee
died at Ithaca of cholera on 3d July, 1854, having
left her home in New York to visit her brother
Richard, and was attacked on the route and died
in the evening. Her daughter, Sarah Lee, mar-
ried Henry King. Their son, Henry Churchill
King, is President of Oberlin College, Ohio.

Edward was born 24th January, 1799. He mar-
ried Mary Hollister in Trenton, Oneida county,

New York, on 6th May, 1827. His wife died at
Wyocena, Wisconsin, in 187 — . They had four

children: Elizabeth, married to Van

Schaik; Amos, married and has children; Em-

eline, married to Dowd, both deceased,

leaving one boy, who was at his grandfather's
house, near Wyocena, a few years since; and
Edward, unmarried.

William Amos Woodward (the writer of this)
was born 21st March, 1801, and resided in New-
London until 1822, when he went to New York,
where he remained until October, 1824, then he
left the city for South Carolina by order of
Doctor Stearnes, his physician, who considered
him in consumption. He remained there and in
Southwestern States, returning to New York in
[826 with restored health, then settled in Ithaca,
New York. In 1841 he returned to New York,
where he engaged in business for fifteen years,
and in 1856 removed to Keewaydin, Orange
county. New York. He was married in Ithaca,
on 4th December, 1S28, to Frances Mary Evert-
son (born 26 April, 181 1), daughter of George
B. Evertson, formerly of Poughkeepsie, New
York.

This couple have lived together in love and
harmony for nearly fifty years.

-Mrs. Mary Nicoll Putnam supplements
the foregoing as follows ;

William A. Woodward died September 19,
1883; his wife died March 15, 1899. Their chil-
dren:

I. George Everton Woodward, born Septem-
ber 26, 1829, died January 26, 1905; married
E. B. Deodata Mortimer, October 31, 1854. Chil-
dren: (1) Elizabeth Bailey, died young. (2)
George Mortimer, died young. (3) Ethel De-
odata, married Professor Mortimer Lamson
Earle, Columbia College, New York. (4) Adele
Mortimer. (5) Benjamin Duryea, married (first)
Gladys V. B. Piver, (secondly) Evelyn Shaw.

(6) Olive Evertson, married Milan H. Hulbert.

(7) Francois Reginald. II. Francis William
Woodward, born December 19, 1830, died Janu-
ary 13, ioo8; married, October I, 1863, Anne Jay
Delaplaine, and had: Mary Delaplaine (married
Dr. Charles G. Strong, both deceased); Harriet
Barrow (married Caleb Forbes Davis). III.
Mary Nicoll Woodward, married Erastus Gay-
lord Putnam, and had: (1) Mary Evertson, died
at eight months: (2-3) Rosalie Gaylord and
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William Hamilton, lived two days. IV. Harriet
Bowen Woodward, born September 3, 1839, died
November 28, 1913; married John Wylie Bar-
row, April 27, 1858, and had: (1) William Wood-
ward, married Florence Dawson. (2) Harriet
Woodward, died young. (.3) Frances Mary, died
young. (4) Margaret Du Bois. (5) Mary Gay-
lord, died young. (6) Anna Evertson. (7)
Archibald Campbell, married Elizabeth Fraser.
(8) Mabel Rosali, married Charles Noel Edge;
children: Peter, Margaret DuBois.

Mr. William Amos Woodward's narra-
tive continues:

Emmeline, daughter of Amos and Elizabeth
Woodward, was born 4th July, 1803; she was
married to Isaac Carpenter, at Ithaca, on 22nd
January, 1829. Mr. Carpenter died at Ithaca
about 1850, and was buried there. They had sev-
eral children, two of whom are still living.

Richard Giles Bailey was born 21st Septem-
ber, 1805; he was married at Trenton, Oneida

county, New York, to Hannah , about

1830. He died 3rd January, 1872, aged sixty-six.
No children.

John (No. 2), sixth son of Amos and Elizabeth
Woodward, was born 6th October, 1809, being
named after his eldest brother, who was lost
at sea on the first of the same month and year.
In 1837, then unmarried, he went as an adven-
turer to Texas, then a dependency of Mexico,
and very soon after no tidings were had from
him. It has been stated that he was one of the
famous Santa Fe expedition. Nothing has been
since heard of his fate or welfare.

My father, when quite a lad, was brought from
his eldest sister's house in Vermont and cared
for by his brother John, then a merchant in New
London, taken into his family, sent to school,
and before the close of the Revolutionary War
was admitted a clerk in the store, and when
nearly of age was a partner, under the name of
John & Amos Woodward, who kept a general
store and engaged in shipping to Europe and the
West Indies. They also had a shipyard on the
point of Winthrop's Neck, and there built many
vessels under the supervision of Amos Sheffield,
shipwright, and employed many people, ship-
builders, riggers, sailmakers, shipjoiners, etc. I
recollect the names of two of these vessels were
the ship "Eliza" and sloop "Emmeline," after
my two sisters, and another of them was called
the "Abeona." Under the Berlin and Milan de-
crees, some of their vessels were detained, but

by whom, or under what circumstances, I cannot
say. About the time of the Embargo, say 1808,
one of the my father's vessels was boarded at
sea by a "press gang crew" from a British man-
of-war, under pretence of searching for British
subjects, and a young fellow named Ebenezer
Dupignac, seized and impressed as a French
subject. He was born in New London, of
French parents who had fled from Santo Do-
mingo during the insurrection there and settled
in New London. Representations of this out-
rage were made to our government at Wash-
ington, and it may be said that this was one
cause of the war with England in 1812-15.

My Uncle John was a successful merchant; he
had no children except my father, his youngest
brother and child by adoption. John was
eighteen years the eldest. At his death he made
ample provision for his widow, and left the re-
mainder of his property to my father. When the
widow died she left her property to myself and
brothers and sisters. My uncle John and my
father married sisters. The families always lived
amicably together.

In 1798 the yellow fever committed great
ravages in New London, continuing through
August, September and October; the heat of
the weather was oppressive; all who could do so,
fled from the city. A committee was appointed
to see that the sick had proper care and atten-
tion, that the indigent were relieved and the dead
properly buried. In about eight weeks 350 were
attacked and 81 died. "The health committee
performed their duties in the most satisfactory
and noble manner— -vigilant, cheerful, assiduous,
unwearied and impartial;" says the historian,
"they executed their difficult and hazardous office
until their services were no longer needed."
Their names will be found honorably recorded in
the following town vote: "In town meeting Feb-
ruary 4th, 1799. Noted that this town entertains
a very high sense of the fidelity, benevolence and
unwearied exertion of Messrs. John Woodward,
James Baxter and Ebenezer Holt, forming the
committee of health during the late epidemic in
this town."

In 1809 my father withdrew from business as a
merchant, and accepted the appointment of
deputy collector of New London, under General
Jedediah Hutington, collector, who was an aide
to and received his commission from General
Washington, which office he held until his death
in 1S14; during this period he performed the
whole duties of the office, and at his decease
General Huntington resigned his office, saying
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that he could never find another man to fill his
place.

It has been said that the Woodwards were
distinguished from early times as good writers.
It may be worth while for some of the family to
verify this by collecting their autographs

\Y A. Woodward.

Keewaydin, August I, 1878.

(VI) Amos Woodward, born 1769,
died 1814, was Deputy Collector of the
Port of New London, 1809-1811. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Bailey (see Bailey Line),
daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Bailey.
They had a son :

(VI I) William Amos Woodward, born
in New London, 1801, died 1883, at Kee-
waydin, Orange county, New York, and
buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New
Windsor, New York ; married Frances
Mary Evertson (see line of Royal Descent
XXXIV and XXXV, and Evertson VII).
and had a daughter:

(VIII) Mary Nicoll Woodward, mar-
ried Erastus Gaylord Putnam (see Put-
nam XXXIV).

(Bailey Line).*

Arms— Argent, a bezant on a fess between
three martlets gules.

Crest— A demi-lady, habited gules, holding in
her dexter hand a tower, and in her sinister a
branch of laurel proper.

Thomas Baylie. Bayley, now written
Bailey, was one of the early settlers at
New London in Connecticut ; he came
there in 165 1. lie is named in the origi-
nal grant or patent of New London as
one of the proprietors of the town. In
August, 1 65 1, Bayley 's lot of three acres
south of Thomas Doxey's lot extended
nearly to State street, on the west side of
Main street, was granted for a house lot.
July 5, 1652, "Granted to Thomas Bayley
two parcels of marsh land in New Lon-
don." November 28, 1652, "Granted to

•By W. A. Woodward.

Thomas Bayley sixty acres on the east
side of the great river, by consent of Mr.
Winthrop." February 6, 1653, "Granted
a Wood Lot in Division No. 1 to Thomas
Baylie." January 30, 1655, "Granted to
Thomas Bayley the land of Goodman
Bartlett of E. side of the great river as
far as they have power to grant the
same."

January 10, 1655-56, Thomas Bayley
was married In Lydia Redfield (Redfin),
daughter of William Redfield of New Lon-
don (see Redfyne line). They had seven
children: Mary, born February 14, 1656-
57, married Andrew Davis, and after his
death was the second wife of Major Ed-
ward Palmes, whose first wife was Lucy
Winthrop, daughter of Governor Win-
throp of Connecticut: Thomas, born
March 5, 1658-59; John, born April, 1661 ;
William, born April 17, 1664jjam.es, born
September 26, 1666; Joseph and Lydia.
Thomas was a soldier and killed at the
battle of Bloody Brook with the Indians
in 1675. Lydia, his widow, married, in
1676, William Thorne, from Dorsetshire,
England, who lived in Groton. They had
sons, Alexander Thorne and William.

John Bayley, the second son of Thomas
and Lydia, was our ancestor. John's wife
was named Elizabeth, but we have nc
record of her marriage. As man and wife
they executed many deeds of land in 1690,
1709. 1722, 1723. 1724, 1726. In the latter
year, John conveys absolutely to his two
sons, John and Joseph, of the town of
Groton, county of New London, colony of
Connecticut, a certain parcel of land,
"wherein I reserved to myself and my now
wife during our natural lives three loads
of hay a year, and yearly likewise the
privilege of cutting what wood I should
think convenient, as may appear by deed
recorded 29th January, 1722-23, and now
for a reasonable consideration have quit
claim," etc. It is to be presumed that the
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wife Elizabeth was dead, and that he then
had another wife. In 1728 his sons John
and Joseph divided by deed the land of
their late father.

This son John, it appears by records,
had a wife Elizabeth. John was born in
1702. In 1722 his father conveyed to his
dutiful sons, John and Joseph, the land
above mentioned. John 2nd executed in
1750-51 a deed of gift to his son Nathan
(my grandfather, who died December 7,
1801, the year that I was born) a parcel
of land in said town of Groton, in con-
sideration of the "love and good will and
affection which I have and bear to my
dutiful son. the said Nathan Baley," etc.

Nathan Bailey, son of John and Eliza-
beth Bayley (2d John), was born May
31, 1724. He was married to Elizabeth
Terry (see Terry) of Lebanon. Connec-
ticut, born September 27, 1729. He died
December 7, 1801, his wife died October
16, 1804, both at New London. They
were married on 31st May, 1750. Their
children were:

Abigail, born March 17, 1751. died at Portland,
Maine, aged about ninety-three. Abigail was
married to Captain Ebenezer Douglass, who died,
and is buried in the family plot in New London.
She removed with her children (one of whom.
Francis, was the editor of the "Eastern Argus"')
to Portland, Maine, and is buried there. Nathan
Douglass was a Presbyterian minister, settled at
Alfred, State of Maine. His wife was Betsey
Benham, of New London, descendant of Nathan.
at New Haven, Connecticut. One son. John
Woodward Douglass, lived many years in Xew
York, and died there, leaving descendants by
name of Albro, well known as grocers in the
Bowery. One daughter, Betsey, married Mr.
Howe; another. Julia, married Mr. Hyde; a
third married Ebenezer Beebe. Lucy died single.
Ann was an old girl, but I heard that she was
married to some person in Portland.

Deborah, second daughter of Nathan and Eliza-
beth Bailey, was born February 2 1753, and died
November 20. 1822. She married John Wood-
ward (my uncle) in New London, in 1776. They
had no children.

Nathan Bailey, Jr., was born October 11, 1755,

and died November 15, 1799. He was married
and had two sons, John Woodward and Nathan,
both of whom are dead for many years.

Ephraim Terry Bailey was born December 18.
'757, and died January, 1781, unmarried.

Frederick was born March 1, 1760, died June.
1 761

Esther, born March 16, 1762; she is buried at
Xew London with her husband, Captain Harris.
I have no further dates. They both have grave-
stones. She was the grandmother of Joseph C.
Douglass of New London, son of Henry and
Harriet Douglass.

Elizabeth, born December 2, 1765, died at
Ithaca, New York, February 11, 1851. She was
my mother; was married to Amos Woodward,
February 26, 1792; he died 2d November, 1814,
was born January 11, 1769. Their eight children
were: For particulars, refer to the Woodward
list.

Mary, fifth daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth
Bailey, was born December 8, 1767, and died at
my father's house, September 12, 1805, unmar-
ried.

John, twin brother to Mary, was born Decem-
ber 8, 1767, and died January 5, 1768, aged about
one month.

Giles, the tenth child, was born February 16.
1770, and died September 1, 1796, unmarried.

After the death of Thomas Bayley, in
1675, tne property was divided among the
children. "June 25. 1699, Thomas Bay-
ley. John, William, James, Joseph and
Lydia, heirs of Thomas Bayley, deceased,
by order of court, have lands divided
among them, as follows, left by their
father :

Thomas twenty-five acres ; John twenty acres ;
William twenty acres ; James. Joseph and Lydia
fifty acres, being part of that sixty acres given
to their father, Thomas, by the Towne of New
London. Andrew Davis has a parcel with his
wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Bayley, adjoin-
ing William Thome and his brothers. April 3.
1728, deed between John Baley and Joseph Baley.
whereas the said John Baley and Joseph Baley.
by the death of their honored father, Mr. John
Baley. late of Groton, became rightfully seized of
a certain farm and buildings thereon, which their
said father aforesaid lived on at the time of his
death, and they being a mind that Brother love
still continue and to prevent controversies which
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hereafter may arise, have concluded the lines as
ran and are hereafter mentioned and expressed
shall be the dividend lines between them of the
farm aforesaid, and their heirs and assigns for-
ever. Beginning, etc., etc.

1709. John Baley and his wife Elizabeth deed
to John Baley, carpenter, being wood lot in first
division, New London. Messrs. Bill, Whipple &
Lester, "a committee to let out the common
have laid out February 19, 1724-5. to John Baley
and Joseph Baley, Jr., three wood lots."

Alexander Thorne conveys to his three loving
cousins, John, Baley James Baley and Joseph
Baley, Jr.. land "in consideration that they have
obliged themselves, their heirs, etc., to well and
comfortably maintain the said Alexander during
my natural life."

December 7, 1742, John Baley and Joseph Baley
and Obadiah Phillips have lovingly agreed and
make a settlement of their adjoining lands in
said Groton, May 12, 1753, John Still Winthrop
conveys to Nathan Baley of Groton, a small piece
of land joining the river for £95, in good bills
of credit of the old tenor.

May 16, 1757, John Strong deeds to Nathan
Baley lands in Groton for £120 10s.

John Bailey, brother of Nathan Bailey,
born in 1718, died June 9, 1817, in the
99th year of his age. He was the oldest
son of John (2nd), and continued in pos-
session of the farm and homestead at
Baileytown, as it was called. At his death
his eldest son, Asher, inherited this home-
stead, and during his lifetime the prop-
erty was sold. Asher had two sons, Joel
and Giles. Joel emigrated to the west
(Illinois?), where he was successful and
distinguished when I last heard of him,
thirty or forty years since. He induced
his father and family to go west. Giles
remained at New London, and was town
clerk twenty years ago. The name of
Bailey was very numerous in Groton and
New London, and many of their descend-
ants still live there. They intermarried
with almost every family in Groton. We
find Latham Bailey. Bailey Latham,
Bailey Lester. Lester Bailey, Bailey
Avery, Avery Bailey, among the later
generations. One of the family, Lieu-

tenant Woodmancy, lost an eye and an
arm, had his head cut open with a cutlass,
and received several other gashes in his
arms and hands and was left for dead at
the massacre at Fort Griswold, on 6th
September, 1781. He recovered and lived
many years after. I have seen him in my
boyhood. His brother Joseph, says the
historian, stood at his post with such cool
concentration of purpose that he kept
count while he loaded and fired his mus-
ket eighteen times while the fort was
assailed by an overwhelming force. He
was among the killed, as were several of
the name of Bailey.

The wife of Captain Elijah Bailey was
the lady who took off and gave her red
flannel petticoat for cartridges to Cap-
tain John French, of the First Artillery
Company of New London, while on their
way hurriedly to reinforce and assist the
people of Stonington when attacked by
the "Ramilies'- 74, "Nimrod" and "Ter-
ror" (bomb ship) on 9th August, 1814. I
was a witness to this attack, and saw the
bombs passing through the air at night,
though many miles distant, being then
thirteen years of age.

During the War of the Revolution, my
grandfather, Nathan Bailey, supplied
arms to the government. When the chil-
dren were detained at home on rainy Sat-
urday afternoons, we were permitted to
play in the garret, and there used "the
dollar of our grandfather-' as currency,
that is, the Continental money received
by them for supplies furnished, while
"playing store" between the Woodward
and Bailey relics of olden time. I cannot
say that we were particular to restore the
exact dollar to its original chest, for we
could not tell the difference.

Note that in four generations from John
Bailey (1st) there were four of the
mothers named Elizabeth, the last of
whom was my mother.

William A. WOODWARD.
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(Terry Ancestry).*

Arms — Argent, a cross between four martlets
gules.
Crest — A demi-lion proper, holding in paws a

fleur-de-lis gules.

The Terrys that came to this country
in the seventeenth century came from
England, and the name was then a
familiar one in London, and in the vil-
lages nearby northward.

Samuel Terry, immigrant, born in Bar-
net, England, April, 1632, died 1730; mar-
ried, January 3, 1660, Ann Lobdell, who
died May 1, 1684; married (second) No-
vember 19, 1690, Sarah, widow of John
Scott, and daughter of Thomas Bliss. The
marriage was unhappy, and in 1694 they
had parted. In 1678 he was appointed sur-
veyor of highways. In 1681 he is men-
tioned as a former constable; in 1685 he
was one of a town committee to estab-
lish boundaries between Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, and adjoining new towns ;
and the records of the matter speak of
him as Sergeant Samuel Terry. On Sep-
tember 27, 1705, his wife Sarah died. In
1730 administration of his estate was
granted to his sons Samuel and Thomas.
Children : Samuel, Thomas, Mary, Eph-
raim, Rebecca and Ann.

Ephraim Terry, son of Samuel and
Ann (Lobdell) Terry, was born in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, February 3, 1671-72,
died in Lebanon, Connecticut, December
7, 1760; married in Springfield, July 25,
1695, Hannah, daughter of James and
Esther Eggleston, of Windsor, Connec-
ticut, who was born in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, December 19, 1676, and was
living January 28, 1761. He settled in
Lebanon, probably about 1707, and was
a farmer, and deacon in the church.

Ephraim Terry, son of Ephraim and
Hannah (Eggleston) Terry, of Lebanon,

•.Votes of Terry Families by Stephen Terrv, A.
M., Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Conn.. 1887.

Connecticut, born in Enfield, Connecti-
cut, January 11, 1703-04, died in Lebanon,
August 24, 1797; married (first) in Leb-
anon, January 18, 1727-28, Deborah
Bailey, who was born January, 1708, died
August 2, 1759.

Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Ephraim
and Deborah (Bailey) Terry, born in
Lebanon, September 27, 1729, married,
May 31, 1750, Nathan Bailey, and had:

Elizabeth Bailey, married Amos Wood-
ward, and had :

William Amos Woodward, married
Frances Mary Evertson, and had :

Mary Nicoll Woodward, married Eras-
tus Gaylord Putnam.

(Park Ancestry).

Arms — Azure, a fesse chequy argent and gules,
between three cinquefoils of the second, and a
buck's head cabossed or, in base.

Crest — A sinister hand holding up an open
book proper.

Motto — Sapicnter et pie.

(Burke's General Armory.)

(I) Robert Park (or Sir Robert, as he
has sometimes been called), was born in
Preston, England, in 1580. He was a
personal friend of Governor John Win-
throp, to whom he wrote a letter relative
to his proposed journey to New England
in February, 1629-30, dated at Easter-
keale, Lincolnshire. A copy of the letter
is printed in the "Park Genealogy" (p.
25). He sailed from Cowes, Isle of
Wight, on the ship "Arabella," March 29,
1630, and landed in Boston on June 17,
1630, living afterward at Roxbury for a
time. He returned to England, carrying
an order from the colonial government
to his son John, probably the first bill of
exchange drawn in America. In 1639 he
settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut. In
1649 he moved to Pequot, now New Lon-
don, Connecticut, where he lived six
years, and then located on lands which he
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was given the title of "Mr.," then used
only for ministers and men of distinction.
The first services in New London were
held in his barn. He was admitted a free-
man in April, 1640; was deputy to the
General Court in 1641 and 1642 and 1652;
selectman 1651. In 1658 he was select-
man of Stonington, then Southertown.

He married (first) Martha Chaplin,
daughter of Captain Robert and Eliza-
beth (Ansty) Chaplin, of Bury, England.
Her father gave her a dowry of three
hundred pounds. He married (second)
at Wethersfield, about 1644, Alice Thomp-
son, of Preston, England, widow of John.
He died at Mystic, February 4, 1664-65,
aged eighty-four years. His will is dated
May 14, 1660, and proved March 14, 1664-
65, bequeathing to children, William,
Samuel and Thomas. Children : Wil-
liam, Thomas, mentioned below ; Samuel,
mentioned below.

(II) Thomas Park, son of Robert, was
born in Preston, England, came with his
father to Wethersfield ; married Dorothy
Thompson, whose mother was the second
wife of his father. About 1650 he settled
in New London, Connecticut, and became
deacon of the church there. Six years
later he moved to Stonington. A letter
that he wrote from Stonington is to be
seen on pages 30-31 of the "Park Gene-
alogy" (N. E. Reg. xxxi, p. 176-77, 1877).
After residing at Stonington a number of
years he moved with his son Thomas, in
1680 or earlier, to the north part of New
London, and in 1681 was collector of
taxes of New London. In October, 1686,
he was one of the petitioners for the in-
corporation of that section as the town of
Preston, a petition that three sons also
signed — Thomas, Nathaniel and John. In
1698 he and his sons, Robert and John,
and nine others, formed the church at
Preston, and he became the first deacon.
He died July 30, 1709, aged about ninety

years. His will, dated September 5, 1707,
bequeathed to wife Dorothy, children
John, Nathaniel, William, Martha, Doro-
thy and Alice ; grandson Samuel (son of
Thomas) and James (son of Robert). He
was granted one hundred acres, March
30, 1680.

Children: Martha, born October 27,
1646; Thomas, born April 18, 1648; Rob-
ert, mentioned below ; Nathaniel ; Doro-
thy, born March 6, 1652; William, bap-
tized 1654 ; John ; Alice.

(Ill) Robert Park, son of Thomas,
was born in New London about 165 1. He
lived in the north part of Groton, Con-
necticut, where he owned large tracts of
land. He also owned a farm at Pachaug.
For a number of years he attended the
church at Stonington, where two chil-
dren were baptized. In 1698 he was one
of the founders of the Preston church,
and afterward attended it.

He married (first) in Norwich, Novem-
ber 24, 1681, Rachel Lemngwell, eldest
daughter of Lieutenant Thomas and
Mary Leffingwell. She was born in Say-
brook, March 17, 1648; (second) Mary
Rose, daughter of Thomas, of Norwich.
He was a soldier in King Philip's war.
Children by first wife : Rebecca, born Sep-
tember 7, 1682 ; James ; Joanna, born 1692,
married David Rude; by second wife:
Hezekiah ; Jemima, baptized at Stoning-
ton, July 15, 1694; Robert, baptized Oc-
tober 10, 1697; Keziah, born at Preston
about 1700; Margaret, baptized June 7,
1702, married Benjamin Rockwell ; Doro-
thy, baptized April 15, 1704, married,
May [8, 1725, Thomas Woodward, lived
at Preston; Rose, baptized March 30,
1707; Mary, married Enoch Badger.
Thomas and Dorothy (Park) Woodward
had children: Park Woodward, born
March 21, 1726; Joanna Woodward, born
February 8, 1729; Hezekiah Woodward,
baptized June 20, 1731 ; Dorothy, born

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Caulkins' History of New London, pp.
290-291).

Children (by first husband) : 1. Mary
Bayley, born February 14, 1656-57; mar-
ried before 1684, Andrew Davis, of New
London. 2. Thomas Bayley, born March
5, 1658-59 ; left descendants. 3. John Bay-
ley, born April, 1661 ; left descendants.
4. William Bayley, born April 17, 1664;
left descendants. 5. James Bayley, born
September 26, 1666. 6. Joseph Bayley.
7. Lydia Bayley, baptized August 3, 1673;
married Andrew Lester.

Marriage of Lydia Redfin and Thomas
Bayley.* The entry of this marriage upon
the records of New London reads thus:
"1655. Thomas Bayley was marryed to
Lyddia the daughter of James Redfin, the
10th of January." That there is a clerical
error here, and that for James we should
read William, is evident from the follow-
ing considerations : Thomas Bayley had a
grant of land made him in 1657. In the
description of its bounds it is said to lie
"over against his father's land at Mo-
hegan." This undoubtedly means father-
in-law, for frequent instances occur in
the same records where the word father is
thus used. No other Bayley had any
grant of lands at that time. Moreover,
when this Bayley grant was afterwards
sold, it is described as being nigh the Red-
field land. But no James Redfield or Red-
fin had any grant of lands recorded in
New London, nor does his name appear
as buyer or seller, grantor or grantee of
any lands within its bounds. This cor-
rection, which is suggested by Miss
Caulkins, disposes of the supposed older
James Redfield alluded to in her "History
of New London," p. 279, and adds greatly
to the probability that James, the son of
William Redfin. is identical with the
James Redfield, afterwards recorded in
other places. Miss Caulkins' "History of
New London," pp. 290-291.

•Redfleld Genealogy, page 7.

BENNETT, Volney G.,

Man of High Character.

The months that have passed since the
death of Volney G. Bennett have served
to bring home to those who were wont to
depend upon his support and counsel in
business, in church, and in social life,
the severity of the loss his community
sustained when, on March 14, 1914, he
was called from earthly walks. For more
than fifty years he was identified with the
lumber trade in Camden, New Jersey,
nearly four decades of that time being
spent as an independent dealer, first as
owner of the Central Lumber Yard, then
as president of the Bennett Lumber Com-
pany, and during that period gained an
extensive business acquaintance in Phil-
adelphia, entering also into the social
activities of Pennsylvania's metropolis.
His position among the leading business
men of his city gave him strong and
widely spread influence in the world of
trade, and this he used in fostering the
commercial and industrial welfare of Cam-
den, not the least successful of his efforts
being in the work of the Board of Trade,
of which he was a founder and president.
Former business colleagues bear loving
and enthusiastic witness of the value of
his life in accomplishment and in exam-
ple, and in all the paths in which he
moved, the memory of his upright, manly
character and sterling merit remains
firmly fixed.

Volney G. Bennett was a descendant of
New England ancestry, Connecticut, the
family home, his line being brought to
Pennsylvania by his grandfather, Stephen
Bennett, who came from Connecticut
prior to the Revolution and settled near
the present town of Palmyra, Pike coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. His wife, Mary Gates,
experienced the dangers of the Wyoming
massacre, it being she who brought the
warning of the Indian attack. They were
the parents of eight children, among them
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Jared, father of Volney G. Bennett. Jared
Bennett was a farmer, also engaging in
lumbering, and married Esther Killam,
who bore him six children.

Volney G. Bennett, son of Jared and
Esther (Killam) Bennett, was born on
the Tike county homestead, April 9, 1837,
and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
March 14, 1914. He was educated in the
schools in the vicinity of his home, and
until attaining his majority was his father's
assistant on the home estate, then leaving
home to work out his own career. His
first position was obtained in the line to
which he devoted his after years, lumber
dealing, and he entered the employ of
McKeen & Bingham, of Camden, remain-
in? with this firm until 1876. On June I,
1876, he began his independent operations
as a lumber dealer, his yard located at
Second and Cherry streets, and from the
first, success attended his transactions.
The Bennett Lumber Company, of which
Mr. Bennett was president, was the out-
growth of the Central Lumber Yard, of
which he was the owner, and until his
death he carefully and devotedly cher-
ished the reputation for fair and straight-
forward dealing of the firm that bore his
name. The large business of this con-
cern was his personal care, and to it he
gave the wise direction that experience
alone makes possible, and the standard in
all departments of the business, in the
mills, in the office, and among the sales
force, was as high as the tireless efforts
of a man of honor and integrity could
make it. His fellows were also the bene-
ficiaries of his excellent business judg-
ment and forceful energy, and the Cam-
den Board of Trade, the city's most use-
ful and efficient business organization was
largely the result of his vision and crea-
tive power. After its organization and
the formation of a plan of procedure, he
served a term as president, his leadership
one of strength and purpose. He was

also for several years treasurer of the
Franklin Building and Loan Association.

It is indicative of the kindliness of his
manner and the friendly qualities of his
personality that he was loved and rever-
enced by those who served him and whose
interests were very dear to him. He was
generous in all things, gave freely of his
means, his time, and his service to the
support of every good cause, and was a
loyal member of the First Baptist Church
of Camden. He was a Democrat in political
belief, but held no public office, discharg-
in his duties as a citizen at the polls and
in the support of worthy candidates and
rightful measures. His long life of sev-
enty-five years contained no chapter at
which all may not gaze, and in the full
view of his fellows and in their constant
approbation the long and useful years
were passed.

He married. July 2j, 1864, Emeline,
daughter of Captain Thomas and Ange-
line Davis, of Port Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey, who survives him with children : Vol-
ney. his successor as head of the Bennett
1. umber Company, formerly vice-presi-
dent and treasurer; Alfred K., ex-mayor
of Merchantville, New Jersey; Killam E.,
president of Munger & Bennett, Inc.,
Camden. New Jersey; Emily J., married
E. M. Linnard, and resides at Pasadena,
California; Olive E., married E. J. Wallis,
and lives at San Francisco, California.

FLINT, Walter Alvin,

Enterprising Citizen.

Walter A. Flint, one of the selfmade
men of West Orange, New Jersey, in-
herited from sturdy English ancestry
those qualities of industry, thrift and
shrewdness which carried him to success.
Thomas Flint, the immigrant ancestor, is
supposed to have come from Wales, and
is mentioned in the town records of
Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time,

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in 1650. It is quite probable that he ar-
rived prior to that year, and there are
reasons for believing that his mother was
in New England as early as 1642. He
was one of the first to settle in that part
of Salem Village, or Danvers, which is
now the town of Peabody, where he pur-
chased land January 1, 1662. This has
continued in the possession of his de-
scendants to the present time. He died
April 15, 1663. The Christian name of his
wife was Ann, and their third son, John
Flint, born October 3, 1655, was a free-
man in Salem Village in April, 1690, and
died in April, 1730. His wife Elizabeth
bore him nine children. The second of
these and their second child was John
Flint, born February 8, 1681. He settled
in Windham, Connecticut, in that part
which is now Hampton, and was a farmer.
He married (first) May 5, 1709, Christian
Reed, who died September 27, 1721.
Their second child and eldest son was
Samuel Flint, born April 9, 1712, and
after 1772 removed to Randolph, Ver-
mont, where he died in 1802. He married
(first) April 13, 1736, Mary Lamphere,
who died January 1, 1744, and he mar-
ried (second) April 11, 1745, Mary Hall.
His fourth son and the fourth child of
Mary Hall was James Flint, born August
to. 175 1, in Windham (now Hampton),
and died in Randolph, Vermont. He re-
sided in Hampton till 1782, when he sold
out his farm and removed to Randolph,
Vermont, settling near his brother, Dea-
con Samuel Flint, who was also a pioneer
of that town. He married, April 22, 1773,
Jerusha, daughter of Elisha and Huldah
(Tilden) Lillie, born May 20, 1757, in
Scotland, Connecticut, formerly a part of
Windham. Their fourth child, James
Flint, was born March 10, 1779, in Hamp-
ton, removed with his parents to Ran-
dolph, and settled in the neighboring
town of Williamstown, Vermont, where

he died. He married (first) March 31,
1803, Hannah Ford, born May 22, 1779.
Children : Abel James, Warren Ford, Al-
vin and Calvin (twins), Nabby Wood-
ard, Julia, Hannah, Jerusha Little, Den-
nison. Major Dennison. He married (sec-
ond) June 9, 1822, Sally Kelsey, and they
were the parents of two daughters, Nancy
and Sarah. Alvin Flint, one of the twin
sons of James and Hannah (Ford) Flint,
married Orinda Peck, and they were the
parents of Lewis Willard Flint, born
1838, in Williamstown, died July 15, 1886.
He married Emagene Aldrich Webster,
and they were the parents of: Myron
Eugene, Inez Alma and Walter Alvin,
who is the subject of this sketch.

Walter Alvin Flint was born May 27,
1870, in Williamstown, and died October
27, 1913, as the result of injuries received
in an accident. He attended the country
schools, and was subsequently a student
at Montpelier Seminary. His father died
when he was but seventeen years of age,
and he was then obliged to leave school
and engage in some active occupation in
order to sustain himself. He found em-
ployment in a general country store where
he had an excellent schooling in salesman-
ship, and after three years removed to
Newark, New Jersey, where he engaged
in the grocery business with a small capi-
tal. His store was in the center of the
business section of Newark, and here he
conducted business about three years. He
then sold his grocery business and ac-
cepted a position as salesman for a whole-
sale butter house. In the meantime he
saw great possibilities in the trade in but-
ter and eggs. He resigned his position
and established his headquarters in New-
ark, New Jersey. He maintained wagons,
which delivered fresh supplies of butter
and eggs to the householders of Newark,
the Oranges, Bloomfield, Montclair, Cald-
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towns. In course of time his brother, M.
E. Flint, was admitted as a partner, and
the firm became known as M. E. & W. A.
Flint. Soon after they moved their head-
quarters to West Orange. After about
two years they again changed their busi-
ness location to Orange road. Montclair,
New Jersey, where this most harmonious
and successful relation continued up to
the death of Walter A. Flint, upon which
his brother, M. E. Flint, bought out his
interest and came into possession of the
entire business.

Walter A. Flint was a man of many re-
sources, and as his business grew he con-
tinued to give it his personal attention.
He was possessed of those genial qualities
which gained and retained friendships,
and his keen business ability and upright
methods naturally proved beneficial to the
business. Everything that he undertook
was made a success because he gave to it
industrious care, and his judgment and
foresight prevented any disaster. Mr.
Flint came to be known in connection
with other lines of endeavor beside his
private business. He was the founder of
the West Orange National Bank, and
continued to be its vice-president until
his death. This stands now as one of his
monuments, and as an evidence of his
public spirit. He was one of the incor-
porators and a most industrious worker
for the success of the Llewellyn Building
and Loan Association of Orange, and was
for many years a notary public of West
Orange. Mr. Flint was ever imbued with
a desire to promote the happiness and
prosperity of individuals as well as the
community, and was one of the founders
of the Methodist Episcopal church of
West Orange, in which for fourteen years
he was superintendent of the Sunday
school, a member of the official board of
the church, and very active in all church
works. He was later a member of the

Central Presbyterian Church of Orange.
lie was a director of the New Jersey
Fire Insurance Company of Newark, and
his counsel was frequently sought by his
neighbors and friends because of their
faith in the soundness of his judgment.
I [e became early active in political move-
ments, and exercised a large influence in
the community, being popular with both
Democrats and Republicans. He acted
with the latter, and in 1909 was elected
mayor of West Orange, the only Repub-
lican to ever receive that office. This he
filled with credit to himself and satisfac-
tion to his constituents. He was ever
ready to aid in the development of West
Orange, and was prominent in all move-
ments tending to promote the public wel-
fare. He was a member of Union Lodge,
No. 11, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Orange, and of the General Chester Coun-
cil, Junior Order of United American Me-
chanics. In both orders he was very en-
thusiastic and active, and was advanced
in the Masonic fraternity to the Royal
Arch degree. He passed all the chairs in
the Mechanics' Council, and was an active
member of the Fifth Ward Improvement
Association.

He married, in Newark, in the year
1893, Lottie A. Ball, daughter of George
and Sarah E. Ball, and they were the par-
ents of two children: Russell Alvin and
Mildred Evelyn, both residing with their
mother in the family residence on High
street, West Orange, built by the father
in 1902.

On the evening of October 28, 1913,
while going in his automobile to attend a
men's dinner at the Central Presbyterian
Church, where several prominent speak-
ers were to participate, Mr. Flint's auto-
mobile was struck by a trolley car, and
his death was the result. His funeral was
very largely attended, and he was buried
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the Junior Order of the United American
Mechanics. His body was laid to rest in
Evergreen Cemetery. Appropriate reso-
lutions expressing the loss sustained by
the community were passed by the boards
of directors of the Building and Loan As-
sociation, the New Jersey Fire Insurance
Company, and the First National Bank of
West Orange. In the life of Mr. Flint is
found ample inspiration for the youth of
to-day, who may seek to better their own
condition by their own industry, and to
benefit the world by exemplary and use-
ful lives.

HOOPER, Robert Lettis,

Active in Revolution, Ironmaster,

The name of Robert Lettis Hooper is
unfamiliar nowadays. Yet Hooper was a
figure of importance in the Revolutionary
War. He came of New Jersey forbears,
and died a resident of the State.

The first American Hooper was named
Daniel, and he came from Barbados. He
was in 1679 a member of Governor Philip
Carteret's council. He was also a justice
of the peace for the county court at Eliz-
abeth Town and Newark. Later he re-
turned to Barbados, but came again to
New Jersey. He was granted a patent
for six hundred and forty-eight acres in
Somerset county in 1692.

Robert Lettis Hooper, the great-grand-
son of Daniel, was the third in succession
to bear that name. His father, Robert
Lettis (2nd), died April 20, 1785; he is
buried at Trenton. There were two sons,
Robert and Jacob. They were partners
in the milling business. In 1761 the part-
nership was dissolved.

Robert Lettis (3rd) later had a store
in Philadelphia, but becoming financially
embarrassed he was obliged to close up.
He then traveled west, making surveys,
and was engaged in projects for colonies

for some years. He visited Sir William
Johnson, at Fort Johnson, in the Mohawk
Valley, and twice later was on the fron-
tier at Fort Pitt.

Hooper wrote from Philadelphia, Au-
gust 18, 1775, a letter brimming over with
enthusiasm. There were rifle companies
forming, and the "servile engines of min-
isterial power,'' namely the British troops,
were likely to get a surprise.

Hooper settled later in Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, and was made a
deputy quartermaster-general. His de-
partment covered three counties in Penn-
sylvania, and the county of Sussex in
New Jersey. In his activities to procure
food and other supplies for the army, he
made enemies, of course, and was once
the subject of investigation. Washing-
ton, however, seems to have had confi-
dence in him throughout the controversy.
Hooper apparently objected for a time to
taking the oath of allegiance to the pa-
triots' cause, and was said to have dis-
couraged such an act on the part of others.
It appears that this attitude arose from a
kind of pride or principle, and that later,
after being under criticism, he subscribed
without scruple to a new form prescribed
by Congress for officers of the army.

After the war, Hooper became an iron-
master, and had much to do with mines.
He became deeply interested in the Ring-
wood Iron Works, in Bergen county.

He took for his second wife Elizabeth
Erskine, widow of Robert Erskine. Er-
skine died at Ringwood, December 19,
1780. The second Mrs. Hooper died in
1796, and July 30 of the next year Robert
Lettis Hooper died in his home a short
distance from Trenton.

In the course of time Peter Cooper and
Abram S. Hewitt, Cooper's son-in-law,
became owners of the Durham, Iron
Works of Pennsylvania, and the Ring-
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wall in the Hewitt mansion at Ringwood
hangs framed a letter written by Robert
L. Hooper, in which, to a friend, he an-
nounces his engagement to the widow
Erskine.

Recently Charles Henry Hart, of Phil-
adelphia, has been making investigations
about Hooper. An article on Hooper, by
Mr. Hart, previously published in the
"Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography," now appears in a pamphlet
limited to fifty copies. J. F. F.

SCOTT, Rev. Orange,

Minister, Hymiiiat.

When camp meetings came into vogue
they brought about in time their own lit-
erature. The institution endured long
enough to produce books, tracts, tradi-
tions and hymns. Viewed in the retro-
spect the movement was accompanied by
much of the dramatic and the romantic.
The traveling preacher was a picturesque
figure and the protracted meetings in the
woods were crammed with incident.

There is a little book of hymns, pub-
lished in 183 1, which has especial interest.
It is entitled "A New and Improved Camp
Meeting Hymn Book." It was compiled
by Orange Scott, and printed by the Mer-
riams at Brookfield, Massachusetts. One
of the most curious hymns in this collec-
tion is an Indian dialect hymn. Imagine
a congregation of the present day, soberly
singing the following really tender and
pathetic verses :

In de dark wood, no Indian nigh,
Den me look heaven, and send up cry

Upon my knee so low.
Den God on high in shining place,
See me in night wid teary face,
De priest he tell me so.

He sends he angel take me care,

He come heself to hear me prayer,

If Indian heart do pray.

He see me now, he know me here,
He say, poor Indian neber fear,
Mi- wid you night and day.

So me lub God wid inside heart,
He fight for me, he take urn pari,

He save um life before;

God lub poor Indian in de wood,

Den me lub God, and dat be good ;

Me pray him two times more.

Orange Scott, the compiler of this camp
meeting hymnal, once lived in Newark,
New Jersey, and there he died, July 31,
1847. He purchased a home at 50 Dark
Lane in that city in the summer of 1846,
and took possession in September. About
a year after his going there he died of
consumption, aged forty-eight years. He
was buried at Springfield, Massachusetts,
where an oration over him was pro-
nounced by Rev. Lucius Matlack.

Orange Scott was born February 13,
1801, at Brookfield, Vermont. The fam-
ily was so poor that the boy's schooling
totaled but thirteen months, and his re-
ligious opportunities were the scantier be-
cause of lack of proper clothing to wear
to church. While living at Barre, Ver-
mont, in 1820 he was converted at a camp
meeting. He was licensed as a local
preacher in 1822. In 1834 he was the
presiding elder of the Providence (Rhode
Island) district.

Scott was strong in his attitude against
slavery. In 1837 he engaged "in a some-
what extensive Anti-slavery Agency." His
health failed in 1840, and he removed to
Newbury, Vermont, to engage in manual
labor and to write occasionally for the
press. With two others he founded in
1842 the "Wesleyan Methodist Church,"
the object of which was the elimination
of the episcopal features of the Methodist
body. He edited "The True Wesleyan"
for some years.

Orange Scott is said to have been one
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England. He was noted for his contro-
versial abilities and had a voice of great
compass and power.

Many a Newarker, it is safe to say,
would find it difficult to give, offhand,
the location of Dark Lane, the street in
which Rev. Orange Scott made his home.
Perhaps some citizens will be surprised
to learn that, in this day of light, a Dark
Lane exists in Newark. Dark Lane for-
merly ran from South Orange avenue, at
the intersection of Jones street, in a south-
westerly direction, as far as Spruce, then
called Harbour street. When Springfield
avenue came into existence Dark Lane
ended at that avenue. We are not able
to state how Dark Lane got its name. We
imagine it was so far out of town that at
night it was a gloomy road, and gained
thus its title. This old-time street still
survives in part. It can be seen at the
junction of Jones street and South Orange
avenue, cutting its crooked path through
the apex formed by those two thorough-
fares. After crossing Hayes street it
twists in toward Fourteenth avenue, and
there gets lost behind some buildings.

Though all the sketches of Scott state
that he died July 31, 1847, there is found
in the local papers of Newark of that time
no reference to the death of this noted
man, who once set the New England cir-
cuits afire with his eloquence. J. F. F.

BASSETT, Allan Lee,

Soldier, Editor, Underwriter.

Allan Lee Bassett was born on the
family farm in New Haven county, near
Derby, Connecticut, on February 28,
1827. His ancestors were of old Puritan
stock. John Bassett, the first of his pa-
ternal line in this country, came to New
Haven from England in 1642, and many
of his descendants were prominent in the
colonial life of New England, being land-

owners, farmers, educators, legislators
and soldiers. His maternal ancestors
were no less distinguished. His mother,
Nancy Lee, was a descendant in the sixth
generation of John Eliot, the Apostle,
who emigrated in 1631 from England to
Massachusetts, where he made himself
famous not only for his learning but for
his labors and sufferings as a missionary
among the Indians.

The parents of Allan desired to edu-
cate him for a professional career, as in
the case of his brothers, Eliot and Benja-
min, who were graduates of Yale Col-
lege ; one becoming a clergyman and the
other a physician. Accordingly young
Allan was sent to Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, where he received
sound preparation for college. His en-
terprising spirit and eager desire to take
part in the busy scenes of life could not,
however, brook the delay incident to a
college course, and at the age of eighteen
he went to New York City to enter the
commercial house of his uncle, Benjamin
Franklin Lee, as a clerk. During the
succeeding twenty years he was actively
engaged in commercial affairs, organized
and successfully conducted the firm of
Bassett & Mace, manufacturers and
wholesale dealers in twine and hardware.

When the Civil War broke out he or-
ganized a military company known as the
Brooklyn Greys, of which he was made
captain. It was attached under the name
of Company D to the Twenty-third Regi-
ment, National Guard of the State of New
York, and took part in quelling the New
York riots and in the battle of Gettys-
burg. He remained at the head of the
company until the close of the war, when
he returned to his home in Brooklyn, dis-
posed of his business, resigned his com-
mission in the regiment, and with his
family removed to Irvington, New Jer-
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"Northern Monthly and New Jersey
Magazine," of which he was editor and
sole proprietor. Its editorial department
furnishes evidence of Captain Bassett's
good judgment and literary taste as a
writer. Two years of close application
in this editorial work induced him to sell
"The Magazine" to the Putnams of New
York, and it was thereafter published
as "Putnam's Magazine and Northern
Monthly."

Soon after abandoning the editorial
chair in 1870, he engaged in the real
estate business. The financial panic
which took place during the following
two years drove all land speculators from
the market and with them went his occu-
pation as well as a large share of his
earnings. On the return of better times
in 1875, he organized the Prudential In-
surance Company, now one of the most
important institutions of its kind in the
country. He became its first president,
and largely through his efforts the com-
pany was placed upon the basis which
made possible the wonderful success
which has followed. But differences of
opinion arising in the conduct of its
affairs, he withdrew in 1879 and associ-
ated himself with the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company of New York, and
continued throughout the remainder of
his life to occupy a position as superin-
tendent in New Jersey, making Newark
his residence.

Captain Bassett was a staunch Repub-
lican, and for several years chairman of
the Essex County Republican Committee.
He was always among the foremost in
enterprises whose aim was the welfare of
the community in which he lived. He
was a prominent and influential member
of the Board of Trade of the city of New-
ark, and was elected as its president for
four terms, an honor without precedent
in that organization. He was also a mem-

ber of the Washington Association, which
was established for the purpose of pur-
chasing and preserving Washington's
Headquarters at Morristown, New Jer-
sey. In the New Jersey Historical Soci-
ety he also manifested much interest, and
labored zealously to secure a fireproof
building for its valuable collections.
From early life he was an earnest, con-
sistent Christian, active in every good
work. His genial nature endeared him
to every one who knew him. and his won-
derful energy and executive abilities gave
him prominence in every movement, pub-
lic or private, in which he took part.

In December, 1853, Captain Bassett
married Caroline, daughter of John Phil-
lips, M. D., of Bristol, Pennsylvania. Six
children were born to them, four of whom
and their mother died during his resi-
dence in Brooklyn.

Captain Bassett died at his home in
Newark, New Jersey, on December 14,
1892. He is survived by a daughter. Al-
lena, wife of Rev. John Balcom Shaw, D.
D., LL. D., president of Elmira College,
New York ; and a son, Carroll P. Bassett,
of Summit. New Jersey.

GIFFORD, Archer and Charles L. C,

Attorney s-at-Law.

The name of Gifford is of French or
Huguenot extraction. According to fam-
ily tradition, Baron Walter, son of Os-
borne Bolle, was given the sobriquet of
Gifford, Giffard or Gyffard, signifying
liberality or generosity, which was ac-
corded him. According to the best infor-
mation concerning the early ancestors of
the family. Archer Gifford, Giffard or
Gyffard, of Normandy, married Katherine
de Blois or Le Blon, a descendant of a
noted family of Normandy, who were of
the nobility of that country. Archer came
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in Canada. He joined the English army
and fought against the French. He died
in Canada.

The Giffords of Essex county, New
Jersey, are a Welsh family. John Gifford,
born in Wales, appears for the first time
upon New Jersey records as a private in
Captain Craig's company of State troops
during the Revolutionary War. The next
record of him is a marriage license in the
office of the Secretary of State at Tren-
ton, stating that April 7, 1770, he obtained
permission to marry Hannah Crane, their
marriage occurring a little later in the
same month. After his marriage he made
permanent residence in Newark, where he
built for himself a house on what is now
the southwest corner of Broad and Acade-
my streets, having on his right William
Rodger's house and saddlery, on his left
the old Newark Academy, while facing
him on the opposite side of Broad street
was the mansion of Dr. Uzal Johnson.
This house later passed into the posses-
sion of William Tuttle, but not until after
Captain John Gifford (so called from his
Revolutionary service) had passed away.
Between Dr. Johnson's and Captain Gif-
ford's on the roadside was one of the town
pumps, which as late as 1812 was used for
one of the official public bulletin boards,
as at the Newark town meeting of April
12th, in that year, passed a resolution
that all hogs running at large were to be
subjected to a poundage of fifty cents
which if not paid in four days was to be
collected by selling the hogs and that
notices of such sales were to be posted
"at three different places viz. at Moses
Roff's, at the pump opposite Captain Gil-
ford's in Broad Way and at Jacob Plum's
store in the north part of the town."
Captain Gifford died intestate in 1821,
leaving his widow and seven children:
Katherine, married Dr. Enion Skelton, of
Virginia ; Mary, died unmarried ; Pa-

tience, married Robert Johnson ; Sarah,
married (first) Benjamin Whittaker,
(second) Robert Johnson, whose first
wife was her deceased sister Patience ;
Anna, married William Miller, of Morris-
town, New Jersey; Susan, married Thom-
as Chapman, an attorney of Camden, New
Jersey; Archer, of further mention. Han-
nah (Crane) Gifford, wife of Captain John
Gifford, was the second daughter of Jo-
seph Crane, great-grandson of Jasper
Crane, one of the original settlers of
Newark, who came from Branford, Con-
necticut. Joseph Crane was town con-
stable in 1778, the year before his daugh-
ter's marriage to Captain John Gifford.

Archer Gifford, only son of Captain
John and Hannah (Crane) Gifford, was
born in Newark, in 1790, and died there,
May 12, 1859. After preparation at New-
ark Academy, he entered the College
of New Jersey (Princeton University)
whence he was graduated, class of 1814,
later receiving from that institution the
degree of Master of Arts. After gradu-
ation he began the study of law in the
office of Elias Van Arsdale, continuing
until his admission to the bar in 1818. He
at once began practice in Newark, con-
tinuing for about twelve years, winning
high reputation as one of the rising young
constitutional lawyers. During that
period he collected much of the material
for his valuable contribution to the legal
literature of the State, published later
under the title, "Digest of the Statutory
and Constitutional Constructions, etc.,
With an Index to the Statutes at Large."
In 1832, when the town became so popu-
lous that the lecture room of the Third
Presbyterian Church, the largest hall in
Newark and in use as a town hall since
1830, would no longer accommodate the
meeting, he was appointed with Isaac
Andruss, Joseph C. Hornblower, Stephen
Dod and William H. Earle, a committee
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"to digest a plan for the division of the
township into two or more wards, with
a system for the transaction of the town-
ship business upon equitable principles."
When the report of the committee had
been discussed and a revised plan finally
adopted, James Vanderpool and Archer
Gifford were appointed to represent the
north ward of the town on the committee
that prepared the bill for presentation to
the Legislature. That bill became a law
and the ward system so organized was
carried into effect in April, 1833, and oper-
ated successfully for three years when
the town received its charter as a city, in
April, 1836. In the same year Archer Gil-
ford was appointed by President Andrew
Jackson, collector of customs for the port
of Newark, an office he held for twelve
years, and for several years was also a
member of Newark common council, an
office to which he was elected in 1843.
He was also for many years an active and
enthusiastic member of the New Jersey
Historical Society and many valuable
contributions to its collections were the
results of his efforts.

As a devoted churchman and a com-
municant of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Mr. Gifford labored long and earnestly.
For twenty-four years he was senior
warden of the parish and took an active
part in the rising Tractarian discussion
of his day. writing and publishing a
strong controversial pamphlet on the
"Unison of the Liturgy." During the
greater part of his life he was a man of
robust health and it is said that he en-
joyed nothing better than a walk from
Trenton to Newark, a distance of fifty
miles, which he often accomplished in
going to and from the sessions of the Su-
preme Court. He married Louisa C.
Cammann. of New York, who bore him
six children: I. Charles Louis Cammann,
of further mention. 2. Ellen M. 3. John

Archer, now president of the Security
Savings Hank of Newark, married Mary
Jane Ailing. 4. Louisa Cammann. 5.
George Ernest Cammann, once manager
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York; married Jane Elizabeth
Smith. 6. Philip Augustus, once manager
of the "Newark Evening Journal."

Charles Louis Cammann Gifford, eldest
son of Archer and Louisa C. (Cammann 1
Gifford, was born in Newark, Xew Jersey,
in November, 1825, and died there, March
29, 1877. He was a graduate in 1845, a
member of the third class of Yale Law
School. Yale University, continued study
in the office of his father, and in January,
1847, was admitted to the bar as an at-
torney. For the next four years, while
still engaged in legal work and study, he
was deputy collector of the port of Xew-
srk, serving under his father's successor
James Hewson, in the office of collector.
In January, 1850, Mr. Gifford was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar as a coun-
sellor and practiced in Newark, lie was
elected a member of the House of As-
sembly in 1857, serving in 1858-59-60 as
State Senator, and during the last year as
president of the Senate. He was all his
life a Democrat, and with the single ex-
ception of the year 1861 was prominently
identified with that party. In that year
he was the anti-Democratic candidate for
mayor of Newark against Moses Bigelow,
but was defeated. On June 29, 1872, he
was sworn in as presiding judge of the
Court of Common Pleas for Essex county
to fill the unexpired term of Judge Fred-
erick H. Teese who had resigned on his
removal to another county. He was suc-
ceeded as judge two years later by Judge
Caleb S. Titsworth, owing to his own
failing health.

In 1875 Judge Gifford and his wife
went to Europe in the hope that the sea
voyage and rest would restore his former
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health and vigor. He returned apparently
much improved, but he gradually failed
and after many months of suffering died
at his home. No. 55 Fulton street, New-
ark, at two o'clock in the morning of
March 29, 1877. He was a lifetime
member of Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, and there his funeral services
were held, Rev. John H. Eccleston, D. D..
officiating.

He married Helen Matoaka Murray,
of Virginia, who bore him six children :
1 William Murray, born in 1852. 2.
Charles, died in infancy. 3. Oswald
Cammann, born in 1856, died in 1892;
married Frances Kingsland and left three
children: Edmund, Virginia and Helen
Murray. 4. Susan V. 5. Frank W. 6.
Archer, born July 8, 1859 ; married. April
24, 1889, Evelyn A., daughter of Henry
W. and Mary G. (Abeel) Duryee, and
has two children: Gertrude M. and
Helen J.

CAMPBELL, Wallace Sherwood,

Manufacturer.

The late Wallace Sherwood Campbell
was one of Newark's enterprising and
honored citizens, occupying a leading
position in the industrial world where
his activities resulted in bringing to him
splendid success, and at the same time
were of value to the community by fur-
nishing employment to a large force of
workmen. Mr. Campbell was born in
Newark, New Jersey. March 20, 1868, son
of Charles Whittaker and Emma Frances
(Simonson) Campbell, old residents of
Newark.

Wallace S. Campbell acquired a good
education by attendance at the public
schools of Newark, completing his studies
at the age of sixteen years, when he ac-
cepted a minor position in the firm of
Day & Clark, with which he was con-

nected throughout the active years of his
life. His enterprise and ability soon
gained for him promotion, and in due
course of time he became the commercial
representative of the firm, later being ad-
mitted to partnership therein, becoming
a junior member. The firm of Day &
Clark was later incorporated and resumed
its business under the name of Day-Clark
Company, manufacturers of jewelry, for
which the city of Newark is noted, and
Mr. Campbell was chosen to fill the offices
of secretary and director, in which ca-
pacities he was serving at the time of his
death. The splendid success of the enter-
prise was due in large measure to the good
judgment and straightforward methods
of Mr. Campbell, who throughout his
connection with the business manifested
untiring energy and unflagging applica-
tion to the duties which fell to his share.
Mr. Campbell was a staunch adherent of
Republican principles, but aside from
casting his vote for the man whom he
considered the best for the office, he took
no part in public life, preferring to devote
his leisure time to his family, to whom
he was devotedly attached, and to inter-
course with his friends, of which he had
many. He was a member of St. Barna-
bas Church of Newark (Episcopal), the
Jewelers Club of Philadelphia, and the
Roseville Athletic Club.

Mr. Campbell married at Grace Epis-
copal Church, Newark, April 22, 1891,
Mary Florence Sullivan, daughter of Fla-
vel Woodruff and Emilie (Thomas) Sul-
livan, well known residents of the south
side of Newark. Mr. Sullivan was active
in public life, serving as street commis-
sioner, member of the road board, and
secretary of the fire commission. Chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell : Gertrude,
born July 31, 1892, became the wife of
George E. Brixner, of Newark, and they
are the parents of one child, George E.,

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Jr.; Wallace S., born March 29, 1895;
Douglas, born May 7, 1902; Emilie T.,
born September 24, 1904. The death of
Mr. Campbell occurred in New Haven.
Connecticut, June 1, 1915.

MUNN, Joseph Lewis,

Attorney-at-Law, Public Official.

In referring to the life history of the
late Joseph Lewis Munn, of East Orange,
New Jersey, we find many elements of
peculiar interest as touching the annals
of the State of New Jersey. He stood as
a representative of one of the oldest pio-
neer families of the country, the same
having been established in the early Colo-
nial days. The origin of the name of
Munn is not definitely known, but that it
is of great antiquity is shown in its armo-
rial bearings which are as follows: Coat-
of-arms : Per chevron sable and or, in
chief three bezants and in base a castle
triple-towered of the first. Crest : A dex-
ter arm in armor, holding a lion's paw
erased proper. Motto: Omnia vincit Veri-
tas ("Truth conquers all things").

Benjamin Mun. as the name was then
spelled, made his home in Hartford, Con-
necticut, served in the Pequot War in
1637, and died in 1675. He married Abi-
gail Burt and had five children, among
whom was John Munn, who took an ac-
tive part in the great fight at Turner's
Falls. His son, John (2) Munn, was born
March 16, 1682, and located in what is
now Orange, New Jersey, about 1709,
coming from Deerfield. Massachusetts.

His son, Benjamin Munn, died in 1818
at the age of eighty-seven years. He was
a farmer on his own land on what is now
Munn avenue. East Orange, where he
was born in 1730. He was one of the
members in communion with the Moun-
tain Society in 1756. He married Jemima
Pierson. born August 28, 1734. a daughter

of Joseph Pierson, granddaughter of
Daniel Pierson and great-granddaughter
of Thomas Pierson. Their son, David
Munn, was born on the family homestead
at the corner of Main street and Munn
avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, De-
cember 16, 1761, and served in the New
Jersey militia during the War of the Rev-
olution. He married Abigail Baldwin, a
daughter of Moses Baldwin. Their son,
Lewis Munn. was born March 25, 1784. He
married Phebe Jones, a daughter of Jo-
seph Jones, a member of an old and
prominent family of New Jersey. Their
son, Asa Berton Munn. was born in East
Orange. New Jersey. June 28. 1809. and
was a prosperous and successful farmer.
He married Mary Parcel, daughter of Jo-
seph S. Hand, and a lineal descendant of
Colonel Aaron Hand, of Springfield. New
Jersey, who participated in the Revolu-
tionary War.

Joseph Lewis Munn. son <>f Asa Berton
and Mary Parcel (Hand) Munn, was born
in the street named in honor of his family
in East Orange, New Jersey. December
5. 1840, and died near this location, No-
vember 29, 1914. having spent his entire
life in East Orange. The local public-
schools and Newark Academy furnished
his preparatory education, and he then
matriculated at Princeton College, now
Princeton University, from which insti-
tution he was graduated in the class of
1862. Taking up the study of law, he
pursued it under the preceptorship of the
well known Amzi Dodd. and was ad-
mitted to the bar as an attorney in 1865,
and as a counselor in 1868. From the
time of attaining his majority he was a
factor to be reckoned with as a supporter
of the Republican party. In 1867 he
served as township clerk and later be-
came township counsel. He was a mem-
ber of the State Assembly in 1881, and
during this term of office served as a
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member of a number of important com-
mittees, and became noted for his careful
drafting of laws. He served as surrogate,
1884-89; as county counsel, 1894-1906,
1908-11; and was counsel to the park
commission, 1895-1907. The cause of
education had in him an earnest and de-
voted friend. He was the first county
superintendent of the schools of Essex
county, and served continuously as a
member of the East Orange board of
education. The excellent system of edu-
cation now in force there is due to his
persevering efforts in this cause. He was
counsel to the Court House commission,
1901-07, under whose auspices the new
Court House was built, and it is entirely
due to his suggestion that the County
Law Library in that building was estab-
lished. Mr. Munn was conspicuously
identified with the furtherance of many
other enterprises which were for the bene-
fit of the county. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Orange Water Company,
and served as counsel of this corporation.
He was connected as counsel with numer-
ous other concerns, in all of which his
services were prized at their due value,
"in matters of religion he was also a con-
scientious worker, and was a charter
member of the Munn Avenue Presby-
terian Church.

Mr. Munn married, in East Orange,
September 11, 1866, Elizabeth P. Randall,
a daughter of John Merchant and Abbie
(Taylor) Randall, and they had children:
Mary Randall, Huldah, Edward, John
Randall and Margaret. From his boy-
hood years Mr. Munn had been a great
lover of out-door sports of every kind,
and of the study of nature. His fondness
for the last mentioned was evinced in his
later years in his garden, whose beauty
attracted attention from far and near.
He was noted for his wonderful memory
which enabled him to keep the studies

of his earlier years fresh in his mind, and
he was able to refer to them with the
greatest ease. Mr. Munn won notable
triumphs at the bar, and high honors in
public life, and in private life he gained
that warm personal regard which arises
from true nobility of character, deference
for the opinions of others, kindliness and
geniality. His conversation was enlivened
by wit and repartee that made him a fas-
cinating companion. He inspired friend-
ships of unusual strength, and all who
knew him had the highest admiration for
his good qualities of mind and heart.

HENRY, Evan James,

Attorney-at-Law.

For forty-three years, from his fiftieth
to his ninety-third year, Mr. Henry re-
sided in Princeton, New Jersey, and even
after he joined the ranks of nonogenari-
ans, his upright figure was a daily sight
upon the streets as he walked about, en-
joying the beautiful views and conversing
with the friends and acquaintances he
met. Physical infirmity caused by an
attack of that dread disease, cholera,
induced him to leave his chosen profes-
sion, the law, but in foreign travel and
in the quiet, healthful surroundings of
Princeton to which he came with his fam-
ily in 1866 his health was restored. Edu-
cated and scholarly in his tastes, friendly
and companionable in his intercourse
with his fellow men, he passed the years
of retirement quietly and happily with
his family and his friends. He retained
a keen interest in life until the very last,
giving little indication of the years he
was carrying. He followed the daily
course of events in the Nation and State
with deep interest, and held decided opin-
ions upon all questions affecting the pub-
lic welfare. His friends were many and
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but adding to the affection felt for the
kindly gentleman, who for so many years
had lived in their midst, quietly, unobtru-
sively and honorably.

Mr. Henry was a representative of the
third generation of his family in the
United States, his grandfather, William
Henry, coming from Ulster. Ireland, in
[783, and settling in western Pennsylva-
nia, where he engaged in farming. His
third son, Thomas Henry, was a soldier
in the War of 1K12, commanding a com-
pany of Pennsylvania militia on the Ni-
agara frontier, aiding in the defense of
Ptiffalo, in 1814. He had settled at
Reaver, in Reaver county. Pennsylvania ;
was editor and publisher of a widely cir-
culated paper, the "Beaver Argus :" sheriff
of Beaver county; associate judge of the
county court, and represented his district
in Congress for three terms. He married
Sarah James, daughter of Evan James, of
Welsh descent and a resident also of
Reaver county.

Evan James Henry was born in Reaver
county, Pennsylvania, May 26. 1816. died
at his home on Stockton street, Prince-
ton, New Jersey, July 24, 1909, son of
Thomas and Sarah (James) Henry. He
was educated in Reaver Academy and
Washington (now Washington and Jef-
ferson) College, beginning later the study
of law. His legal studies were pursued
under the preceptorship of Daniel Agnew,
later a chief justice of Pennsylvania, and
in 1839 he was duly admitted to practice
in the Reaver county courts. For a few
years he practiced at the bar of his native
county, then removed to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he was engaged in practice until
1855. An attack of cholera had previously
left him in a weakened condition of body
and a few years later he decided to cease
the practice of his profession. He traveled
in Europe for a time and in 1866 selected
Princeton, New Jersey, for a permanent

residence, living there a retired life until
his death in 1909.

Mr. Henry married, in September. 1855,
Lucy Maxwell Rigg, born in Kirkcud-
bright county, Scotland, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Maxwell) Rigg.
Children: Thomas M., now engaged in
the practice of law in Washington, D. C. ;
Francis M.. of Minneapolis; William, of
Minneapolis; Sarah, wife of Dr. Caspar
Wistar Hodge; Caroline; Lucy M.;
Henry, of Princeton, New Jersey.

THOMPSON, Charles Henry, M. D.,

Physician, Surgeon, Public Official.

With the death of the late Dr. Charles
Henry Thompson, of Relmar, New Jer-
sey, that town and section of the country
lost one of its ablest and best beloved
physicians and surgeons. Rich and poor
alike sincerely mourned his passing away,
for, while he was to the former an allevi-
ator of their physical sufferings, he was
to the latter a physician, fatherly friend
and a helper in all periods of distress and
trouble. His family was an ancient one.

England and Scotland gave him his
paternal ancestors. The name was origi-
nally' Tomson. the first emigrant to this
country bearing the name, being John
Tomson, who came prior to 1650 and
made his home either in Massachusetts
or Rhode Island. From there he mi-
grated to New Jersey, where he was one
of the pioneer settlers. In 1667 he was
one of the eighty-six original purchasers
of that part of Monmouth county known
then as Nawasink, Narumsunk and Poo-
tapeck. One of his lineal descendants was

William I. Thompson, born near the
present town of Freehold, New Jersey,
March 19, 1779, the grandfather of Dr.
Charles Henry Thompson, of this sketch.
All his life was spent in the section of his
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His religious faith was that of the Pres-
byterian denomination. He married, Oc-
tober 23, 1799, Margaret Denise, and had
children : Catherine ; Denise, of further
mention; Joseph C. Cornelia, Sydney,
William W.

Denise Thompson, son of William I.
and Margaret (Denise) Thompson, was
born in Tennent Parsonage, near Free-
hold, New Jersey, September 23, 1802.
He was also a farmer ; at first a staunch
supporter of Whig principles, he became
a Republican upon the formation of that
party ; he was a member of the Dutch
Reformed church, and a long time its
treasurer at Freehold. He married, Feb-
ruary 22, 1826, Cornelia Bergen, a mem-
ber of an old family, and had children:
Jacob B., William I., John B., Joseph O,
Cornelia D., Stephen E., Tunis D., and
Charles Henry, of further mention. The
Bergen family came from Holland, where
Jacob I. Bergen, father of Mrs. Thomp-
son, was born November 9, 1782, a de-
scendant of Hans Hansen Bergen, who
came to America in 1633 and settled on
Manhattan Island. He married Sara Ra-
palie, the first white child born to Euro-
pean parents in the Colony of New
Netherlands. Jacob I. Bergen married,
February 4, 1806, Syche Bergen, and they
had children: Cornelia, mentioned above;
John W., Abram, Matthew E., Simon H.,
Sarah M.

Dr. Charles Henry Thompson, son of
Denise and Cornelia (Bergen) Thomp-
son, was born near Marlboro, Monmouth
county, New Jersey, August 23, 1843, ar>d
died in Belmar, in the same county, De-
cember 3, 191 2. His preparatory educa-
tion was acquired in the old Freehold
Academy, conducted at Freehold. New
Jersey, by Professor William W. Wood-
hull, and he then became a student at
Rutgers College in i860, and was gradu-
ated from this institution in the class of

1864. Having decided to make the medi-
cal profession his lifework, he commenced
reading medicine under the preceptorship
of Dr. John Vought, of Freehold, and
pursued his studies at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in the city of
New York, a part of what is now Colum-
bia University, and was graduated with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Febru-
ary 28, 1868. He commenced the active
practice of his profession at Rosemont.
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, remain-
ing there for a period of four years, when
he practiced in New York two years, then
four years in South Amboy, New Jersey,
and finally made a permanent location at
Belmar, Monmouth county, New Jersey,
with which town he was identified until
his death. He kept well abreast of the
times in medical progress, holding the
wise opinion that a physician should
never cease to be a student, and was
faithful to this principle all through his
life. He was frequently called in consul-
tation by others in the medical profession,
and established for himself an enviable
reputation as a physician and surgeon,
and as a citizen of the highest standard.
While he ever gave his staunch and con-
sistent support to the Republican party,
he never sought office. He was, however,
obliged to yield to the repeated solicita-
tions of his party, and became its nominee
for Assembly in 1890, but as the Demo-
cratic party was overwhemingly large, he
was defeated. Later he served two terms
as president of the borough commission
of Ocean Beach, and two terms of two
years each, as mayor of Belmar, greatly
to the benefit of those communities. In
matters connected with religion he was a
leading spirit. He was one of the organ-
izers, and the first senior warden of the
Holy Apostles' Protestant Episcopal
Church at Belmar, and when the church
was dedicated, as incumbent of the office

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he held, it fell to his lot to present the
church to the bishop of the diocese. lie
was connected with a number of fraternal
organizations, holding especially high
rank in the Masonic fraternity. Among
those with which he was affiliated were :
Ocean Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Goodwin Chapter, No. 36, Royal
Arch Masons; Corson Commandery, No.
15, Knights Templar; Mecca Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of New York City ; Im-
proved Order of Red Men, of Belmar.

Dr. Thompson married. May 23, 1865,
Rhoda Ann Holmes, a daughter of Sam-
uel and Marietta (Wiley) Holmes, of
Pleasant Valley, New York. One child
blessed this union: Fred V., born Sep-
tember 12, 1866, a well known physician
of New Jersey, who commenced his prac-
tice at Asbury Park, and is continuing it
at Belmar, New Tersev.

LYONS, Lewis James,

Manufacturer, Inventor, Financier.

The title of "an upright business man"
is one of the most honorable that can be
borne. It is a distinction won in a war-
fare, and against temptations, that can
only exist in a business career. Not many
come through a protracted course un-
scathed and untainted, and it is an occa-
sion for congratulation that the business
history of Newark, New Jersey, shows
a long list of men who have honored
their occupations by pure lives and honest
business principles, up to which they have
lived to the best of their ability. It is
men like the late Lewis James Lyons who
are intelligent factors in every undertak-
ing and who help to develop the success
of all large cities and the country in gen-
eral. He belongs to that distinctively
;epresentative class of men who promote
public progress in advancing individual
prosperity, and whose private interests

never preclude participation in move-
ments and measures which further the
general good. The ancestors of Mr.
Lyons, both paternal and maternal, were
patriotic and intelligent people, one of
them being an officer in the Army of
Cromwell in England, and another, the
well known hero of Bohemia, Frederick
Matthias, was a defender of the Protes-
tant faith in the Thirty Years' War.

Lewis James Lyons was born in Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, November 7, 1815, and
died in his home in Newark, October 31,
1897. He was an infant at the time of
the death of his parents and, while rela-
tives in London expressed a strong desire
to have the child sent to that country, he
was taken by maternal relatives to Bos-
ton, and there given an excellent educa-
tion. This would have included further
instruction in higher institutions of learn-
ing, but the mind of Mr. Lyons was bent
in another direction, and it has been well
for the world in general that he was per-
mitted to follow his natural inclinations.
He was still a young lad when he left
Boston for New York City, then, at the
expiration of two years, went to Strouds-
burg, Pennsylvania, where he lived for a
time. The next scenes of his industry
were in succession, Providence, Rhode
Island: Paterson, New Jersey; Brook-
lyn, New York ; gathering general knowl-
edge of men and industries of various
kinds in all of these places. He finally,
in 1845, established a residence in New-
ark, in which the remainder of his life
was spent. He was one of the first to
open boiler works in Newark, and, as he
was an inventor, as well as a manufac-
turer, the output from his plant was in
great demand. It was as an inventor
that Mr. Lyons became acquainted with
Seth Boyden, and in response to his
appeals established his factories in New-
ark. It was Mr. Lyons who made the
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power for a fire engine, and world rec-
ords show the value of this idea. He was
a man of brilliant ideas in many direc-
tions, but the introduction of these fre-
quently met with the greatest opposition
at the first. A case in point is the pay-
ing of the workmen in cash instead of
with orders upon the stores, as had been
the custom for many years. Other em-
ployers did their utmost to prevent this
idea from being carried into effect, but
results proved the wisdom of it, and the
very men who were the strongest oppo-
nents later adopted it. As an inventor,
the counsel of Mr. Lyons was often
sought by other inventors and industrial
workers. His boiler works were among
the most successful industries of the city,
and his humane and conscientious treat-1
ment of those in his employ kept him
very generally free from the troubles
which are apt to beset those in. control
of large plants. He was connected offi-
cially, and otherwise, with many enter-
prises of importance, among them being:
The Merchants' Insurance Company, in
which he was a director for more than a
quarter of a century ; one of the founders,
and a director, in the North Ward Bank ;
vice-president in the Citizens' Insurance
Company and the People's Savings Bank,
of Newark. In political matters Mr.
Lyons was a staunch Democrat, and had
no sympathy for the cause of the Civil
War. However, he was essentially a just
and fair-minded man, and would allow no
destruction of property of adherents of
either side, if it lay in his power to pre-
vent it. On one occasion, he prevented a
mob from destroying the property of a
friend who was a Republican and a
Unionist, and on another, his popularity
prevented the destruction of his own
property. He saved one of the local
banks from a panic which had arisen, by
supplying it with finances from his pri-
vate bank, and thus prevented the closing

of its doors. It was one ofhis fixed prin-
ciples never to purchase or contract for
anything for which he could not pay, and
this principle he instilled thoroughly into
the minds of his children. At various
times he was offered public office, but he
invariably refused, holding that he was
best serving the interests of the commu-
nity by devoting his time and attention to
furthering industrial prosperity. His fra-
ternal affiliation was with St. John's
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He
had been born and reared in the faith of
the Church of England, but upon attain-
ing maturity, joined the Methodist
church, of which he was a member until
ten years prior to his death when he be-
came a Presbyterian. For many years he
was one of the leaders in the Union Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, gave freely
of his time, means and personal efforts,
and it is largely owing to his instrumen-
tality that the present house of worship
was erected. He was also one of the or-
ganizers and founders of St. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church of Newark.
The cause of education had in him an
ardent supporter, and he was equally
generous in maintaining institutions of
art and literature. His simple and un-
affected nature delighted in the works of
nature, to which his beautiful home at
Belmar, New Jersey, testifies, as does his
winter home in North Carolina.

Mr. Lyons married, in 1836, Mary A.,
a daughter of J. Farrel Ward, of New
York City, a descendant of a number of
old and honorable families of England,
among whom were the Dudleys, Cun-
ninghams and Peytons. They had a num-
ber of children, the four youngest being:
Hannah M., Bertha E. C, Isabella G. and
Frederick M.

A vigilant and attentive observer of
men and measures, the opinions of Mr.
Lyons were recognized as sound and his
views as broad, therefore carrying weight

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with those with whom he discussed pub-
lic problems. He possessed a genial na-
ture which recognized and appreciated
the good in others and drew around him
a large circle of friends. The success
which he gained was of a character not
to be measured by financial prosperity
alone, but also by the kindly amenities
and congenial associations which go to
satisfy man's nature. No good work
done in the name of charity or religion
sought his cooperation in vain, and in his
work of this character he brought to bear
the same discrimination and thorough-
no- which were so strikingly manifest
in his business life.

MARTIN, Isaac,

Quaker Preacher.

Among those earnest itinerant preach-
ers called Quakers who in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries traveled the
highways and byways of New Jersey was
Isaac Martin. The journal of his "Life,
Travels, Labors and Religious Exercises"
was published at Philadelphia in 1834.

The published journals of the old-time
Quaker preachers are as a rule note-
worthy for good English. Written with
no desire to draw the praise of men or
to conform to the canons of "polite litera-
ture," they reveal at least a taste for the
elegance of simplicity. John Woolman's
journal was formerly used to instruct in
good English the students of Princeton.
Doubtless Woolman, had he lived to
know this fact, would have sat long for
light before he could decide whether or
not such use of his testimony was accord-
ing to the leadings of truth. It may be
said also of the journals of the Friends
that though they were not compiled for
human or historical interest, yet the
thoughtful reader finds much of human
interest in them, and the delver after orig-
inal sources discovers much of historical

value. Occasionally some historical in-
cident is thrown into the narratives stand-
ing out the clearer for being set in the
language employed.

Isaac Martin dwelt at Rahway, which
even as late as 1834 (as may be seen on the
title page of the book) was designated as
being in East Jersey. From Rahway he
went forth from time to time on his
preaching tours, visiting many localities
in New Jersey and sometimes going to
New England and to the Southern States.

Isaac Martin was born in New York
City, January 16, 1758. His father, Isaac,
was a Friend. Martin became appren-
ticed to a hatter, and learned that trade.
Like John Woolman, he believed that
only "plain hats" should be worn. Dur-
ing the Revolutionary War he left the
city and dwelt for a time with a relative.
On April 12, 1780, he married Elizabeth
Delaplaine, of New York. He moved to
Rahway in September, 1784. He signed
his name to a little treatise on "Silent
Worship'' on September 27, 1819, with
the address Bridgetown, Rahway, East
New Jersey. He died August 9, 1828.

Princeton Theological Seminary last
year celebrated its centennial annivers-
ary. There were exercises, addresses and
congratulations. Tribute was paid the
institution for its work for the cause of
religion. The Friend preacher, Isaac
Martin, had visited Princeton during No-
vember, 1817. His thoughtful eye caught
sight of the then new seminary building,
and he was led to comment in his journal
upon its use and purpose. "At this place,"
he said, "they have lately erected a large
building called Theological Hall, intended
to prepare young men for preaching." It
seemed to the earnest Quaker like a relic
of medieval darkness which he thought
"in the Lord's time will be scattered by
the arising of pure, evangelical light,
which only can qualify sons and daugh-
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Christianity." "There is no need," con-
tinued Martin, "of learning Latin, Greek
and Hebrew in order to enable preachers
to address the people in a manner adapted
to their understandings."

That solid old Princeton Seminary
should once have seemed an innovation
and dangerous to evangelical piety may-
seem odd to modern readers, but if his-
tory teaches anything it teaches that all
new movements are subject to honest
doubt. J. F. F.

WALSH, Charles E.,

Business Man, Esteemed Citizen.

It is not necessary that the man who
achieves wealth be made of sterner stuff
than his fellow men, but there are certain
indispensable characteristics that contrib-
ute to the prosperity of the individual,
and these are energy, determination and
the ability to recognize and improve op-
portunities. These qualities were cardi-
nal elements in the character of Charles
E. Walsh, of Hackensack, New Jersey,
whose recent death was a severe blow to
the entire city. He was the son of Benja-
min and Elizabeth (Miller) Walsh, the
former a large brick manufacturer in the
town of New Windsor, New York.

Charles E. Walsh was born in Monroe,
Orange county, New York, January 30,
1848, and received a sound and practical
education in the public schools of that
section of the country. Immediately after
completing his education, he entered the
business of his father and was associated
with him until the year 1881 at the time
of his father's death. He then founded a
brick making plant of his own in Little
Ferry, New Jersey, associating himself in
partnership with Louis K. Brower, the
firm being known as Walsh & Brower,
and this was successfully operated for a
number of years when Mr. Walsh took
over the entire business himself and con-

tinued in it until 1910, in which year Mr.
Walsh retired from the responsibilities of
a business life. As a business man he
took high rank for the progressive
methods he favored, and he introduced
many new ideas.

Mr. Walsh married, December 12, 1883,
Ella M., a daughter of Charles A. and
Sarah (Bacon) Smith, old residents of
Newburgh, New York, and they have had
children: Edna E., born March 25, 1886,
who died in infancy ; Charles E., born
November 28, 1888, who married Mabel
Sigler, of Paterson, New Jersey, issue —
Virginia M. ; Mabel C, born November
6, 1889; Jerome E., born October 28,
1890, who died at the age of six and one-
half years ; and David St. John, born
March 11, 1897. All the children except
the first mentioned were born in Hacken-
sack, New Jersey.

The death of Mr. Walsh, which oc-
curred June 4, 1912, was deeply deplored
in many circles. He was not alone a lov-
ing husband, a devoted father, but the
poor and helpless had in him a constant
and generous friend. He donated liberal-
ly to charities of every description, and
gave personal effort as well as financial
aid.

In politics he was a member of the Re-
publican party. He was always keenly
interested as a voter in the selection of
representative men to represent the people
in town, county, State and government
positions, but never sought office himself.
He and his family attended the Methodist
church. His fraternal affiliations con-
sisted of membership in the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Hacken-
sack Wheelmen, the American Mechanics,
the Exempt Firemen of Hackensack.

In business matters he was courageous
and energetic, and his fidelity to principle
and his earnestness of endeavor were fre-
quently the subject of comment in his
wide acquaintance.

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ROEBLING, Ferdinand W.,

Man of Large Affairs.

The career of the late Ferdinand \V.
Koebling, who served in the capacity of
treasurer and general manager of the
John A. Roebling Sons Company, builders
of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great
structures, and widely known in the wire
rope industry, illustrates in a forceful
manner what can be accomplished by
men of the stamp of Mr. Roebling. He
was a capable, conscientious and genuine
captain of industry, conservative, yet
keenly alive to every improvement for
advancing along progressive lines the in-
dustries that fell to his management, and
to what extent the history of the imperial
commercial growth of the United States
is indebted to men of the character and
energy possessed by Mr. Roebling would
be difficult indeed to estimate.

Ferdinand W. Roebling was one of the
four sons of John A. Roebling, the foun-
der of the house that bears his name, a
full account of whom appears in Volume
II of this work. He was born at Saxon-
burg, Butler county, Pennsylvania, Feb-
ruary 27, 1842, and when he was seven
years of age his parents removed to Tren-
ton, New Jersey, in which city he spent
the remainder of his days. He received
his education in the Polytechnic College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and during
his course specialized in chemistry.
About the close of the Civil War, he as-
sumed the general management of the
John A. Roebling Sons Company, at
Trenton, the business being established
at Saxonburg in 1840 by his father, who
transferred the plant to Trenton in 1848,
erecting a house for his family at the
side of the manufacturing plant, which
they occupied until 1857, when they re-
moved to another section of the city and
their home became the office of the com-
pany. The John A. Roebling Sons Com-

pany is the most extensive of its kind in
the world, its product consisting of iron,
steel, copper and brass wire, wire rope,
electric cables and modern wire goods.
It has for many years been closely con-
nected, either through building entirely
or furnishing material, with the great
suspension bridges of the United States,
completing the cables for the East River
suspension bridges, and the magnificent
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, considered
the most impressively beautiful bridge
in the world, is a monument to its de-
signer, John A. Roebling, who suggested
and developed this daring engineering
feat. The submarine cables connecting
America and Europe carry copper con-
ductors turned out at the Trenton works,
and enough wire is manufactured in the
works every day, of all kinds, to reach
twice around the world. They also turn
out a vast amount of telegraph wire, suf-
ficient for a man to make five railroad
trips from the Atlantic to the Pacific, each
by a different route, and never lose sight
of the product of this plant which is
strung on the myriad poles alongside of
the parallels of steel over which rolls the
commerce of this wonderful country. The
disposition of such a vast output calls for
extensive commercial arrangements in all
parts of the United States and abroad, all
of which, in addition to the manufactur-
ing side, were under the direct manage-
ment of Mr. Roebling from his business
office in the city of Trenton. When Mr.
Roebling assumed charge of the Trenton
works, the total annual output did not ex-
ceed two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars, and at the present time (1917) it
averages each year many million dollars.
He was one of the first to appreciate the
importance of electrical development, and
outside of the branch of his Trenton
manufacture which enters into the elec-
trical field, that of electrical conductors
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became an active director in a number of
electrical and allied manufacturing com-
panies, becoming responsibly identified
with concerns engaged purely in manu-
facturing, which furnish employment
for thousands of people, and which have
an output of millions of dollars annually.
In addition to this he served in an official
capacity in the Wirecloth Company, as
president of the Union Mills Paper Manu-
facturing Company, as vice-president of
the Syracuse, Rochester & Eastern Rail-
way Company, and as a director in the
Mechanics' National Bank of Trenton.
Mechanics' and Metals National Bank of
New York, the Otis Elevator Company,
Mercer Automobile Company, Trenton
Street Railway Company, the Interstate
Railway Company, Trenton Brass and
Machine Company, and the Standard Fire
Insurance Company.

Mr. Roebling always took particular
pride in the fact that so many of his staff
and so many workmen remained with
him for long periods, this fact amply tes-
tifying to the interest he ever manifested
in their welfare, and in return they were
loyal and faithful to his interests, and dur-
ing his almost half a century of steward-
ship at Trenton but one disagreement oc-
curred, and that a small strike in a minor
department, and for a short period only.
There grew up around him family after
family of industrious, skilled artisans, in
several instances three generations being
in the employ of his company. One of
the characteristics of Mr. Roebling, which
was also possessed by his father and by
his brothers, was that of investigating be-
fore believing, taking nothing for granted.
He was a quiet, thoughtful man, thorough
master of every essential detail of his ex-
tensive manufacturing interests, yet al-
ways finding time to keep in touch with
the commerce of the world through his
various established offices in all the for-
eign capitals. One singular fact about

Mr. Roebling was that he never crossed
the ocean, it being particularly noticeable
from the fact that he was a man of such
vast interests, stretching to all parts of
the world. He was the possessor of a
fine library of technical books, covering
a wide range of subjects, which he often
consulted, and he also had a particularly
fine collection of books on ceramics and
decorative ware, a study naturally sug-
gested by the position of Trenton as the
center of the pottery industry of the
United States. Mr. Roebling served as
president of the board of trustees of the
Public Library of Trenton. He was a
devotee of open-air exercise, and he spent
a portion of each year in out-door sports,
having been particularly fond of duck
shooting. The following paragraph is
taken from the November, 1902, issue of
the "Cosmopolitan Magazine,": "Mr.
Roebling, in his earnest, yet progressive,
everyday life, developing the interests of
his companies, and giving increasing em-
ployment and advantages to thousands
and tens of thousands, has erected a
monument to himself and his character
as noble and imperishable as any of the
great engineering achievements with
which the name of his family has been
identified." He was a member of the
Union League and Engineers' Club.

Mr. Roebling married Margaret Gatz-
mer Allison, who bore him four children :
Karl G., married Blanche D. Estabrook;
Ferdinand W., Jr., married Ruth Met-
calf; Margaret, became the wife of Dr.
F. V. C. Perrine ; Augusta Henrietta,
who became the wife of William T.
White. Mr. Roebling died at his home in
Trenton, March 17, 1917. In addition to
his four children, he is survived by three
brothers: Charles G. Roebling, president
of the John A. Roebling Sons Company ;
Colonel Washington A. Roebling, of
Trenton, and Edward Roebling, of New
York.

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COLES, Jonathan Ackerman,

Physician, Surgeon, Philanthropist.

Jonathan Ackerman Coles, A. B., A. M.,
M. D., LL. D., the only son of Abraham
and Caroline E. (Ackerman) Coles, was
born in Newark, New Jersey, May 6, 1843,
in "The Coles Homestead Building," 222
Market street, purchased by his father in
1842. Here also was born their daugh-
ter, Emilie S. Coles, February 8, 1845.
The Coles Homestead, kept in perfect re-
pair, is still occupied by Dr. Coles and his
sister when in Newark — the parlor floor,
consisting of seven rooms, being reserved
for said purpose, and the remainder of
the building being now rented for offices.

Dr. Coles was prepared for college at the
Collegiate School of Forest and Quacken-
bos in New York City, where he was
awarded the prizes for proficiency in Ger-
man and rhetoric. In i860 he entered the
freshman class of Columbia College, New
York. In his senior year, by the unanimous
decision of Professor Charles Davies, Pro-
fessor Murray Nairne and Professor Wil-
liam G. Peck, he received the Philolexian
prize for the best essay. He was gradu-
ated in 1864, and in 1867 received the de-
gree of Master of Arts, and in 1903 the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from
Hope College, Holland, Michigan. After
graduation he began the study of medi-
cine and surgery in the office of his father
in Newark, New Jersey, and, after ma-
triculating at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York City, he be-
came also a student of Professor T. Gail-
lard Thomas. At the annual commence-
ment of the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, in 1867, he received from Professor
Alonzo Clark the Harsen prize (a parch-
ment diploma, a bronze medal, and three
hundred dollars cash) for the best written
clinical report of the year of the medical
and surgical cases in the New York Hos-
pital. He graduated with honor in 1868.

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and after serving in the New York, Belle-
vue and Charity hospitals, opened an office
in the City of New York, becoming a mem-
ber of the New York Academy of Medicine
and the New Yurk County Medical Soci-
ety. The years of 1877 and 1878 he spent
for the must part in Europe, attending
lectures and clinics at the universities and
hospitals in London, Edinburgh, Paris,
1 leidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna. While
at Edinburgh he was a guest of Professor
Simpson. At Paris he was the guest of
his father's friend and classmate in col-
lege, Dr. J. Marion Sims. At Munich,
Bavaria, in company with Dr. Sims, he
attended the meetings of the International
Medical Congress, and by invitation par-
ticipated in the honors bestowed upon this
distinguished American surgeon, whose
excellent full length bronze statue now
adorns Bryant Park in the City of New
York. After visiting Syria, Palestine and
Egypt he returned home and became asso-
ciated with his father in the practice of
his profession.

In 1891 Dr. Coles was elected president
of the Union County (New Jersey) Medi-
cal Society. He is a member of the Amer-
ican Medical Association; the New Jer-
sey County and State Medical Societies ;
the New York County and State Medical
Societies ; is a fellow of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City; is a
member of the New York Historical Soci-
ety; is a patron and trustee of the New
Jersey Historical Society ; is a member
of the Washington Association of Morris-
town, New Jersey ; is one of the founders
of the Valley Forge Library ; is a member
of the National Geographic Society ; is an
honorary regent of Lincoln Memorial
University ; is an honorary member of the
Newark Museum of Art; a member of
the International Anglo-Saxon Society of
London, Copenhagen and New York; is
an honorary vice-president of the Amer-
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American Bible Society ; and is one of the
board of advisors of the Canton Christian
College, Canton, China; and holds other
positions of trust. He has contributed to
the press, has published articles on medi-
cal and educational subjects, and has
edited some new editions of his father's
works.

Dr. Coles has given many classical
works in bronze and marble to the educa-
tional and public buildings in Newark,
New York, and elsewhere. The New
Jersey Historical Society, the Free Public
Library, the High School, the Academy,
the City Hall and the Post Office in New-
ark, have been especially benefited there-
by. He contributed for permanent im-
provements one thousand dollars toward
the celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
Newark (A. D. 1666-1916).

Referring to some bronzes given by Dr.
Coles to Columbia University, the Hon.
Seth Low, its president, wrote December
16, 1896:

My Dear Dr. Coles:

I have just seen the bronzes in the Library.
They are beautiful, and I am very sure that they
will be accepted with gratitude. I had the pleasure
of telling the Alumni last evening of your gener-
osity, and in due time you will receive the formal
thanks of the trustees. The Alumni received the
announcement with applause.

Yours faithfully, Seth Low, President.

Mr. John B. Pine, clerk, wrote :

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES.
Resolved: That the thanks of the trustees be
tendered to Dr. J. Ackerman Coles for the most
welcome and valuable gifts to the University of
several bronze busts, handsomely and appropri-
ately mounted:

1. A copy of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias.

2. A copy of the bust said to be that of Plato,
found in the house of the Papyri, Herculanium.

3. A copy of the Hermes of Praxiteles, found
in the temple of Hera, in Olympia.

A true copy.
[Seal.]

John B. Pine, Clerk.

To the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, New York, Dr. Coles has given
two valuable bronzes cast at the Barbe-
dienne foundry in France. One is a copy
of the "Dying Gaul," or "The Gladiator,"
found in the garden of Sallust, which,
with its right arm restored by Michael
Angelo, is now in the Museum of the
Capitol in Rome. The other is a copy
of the bust of ^sculapius in the Museum
of the Louvre in Paris. Both, appropri-
ately and elegantly mounted by Tiffany
& Company, have places in the trustees'
parlor in the college. By reason of its
grace and realistic anatomical accuracy,
"The Dying Gaul" has always been re-
garded as the masterpiece of the Perga-
menian school in sculpture, forming as it
did with its companion piece, "The Fight-
ing Gaul," the chief adornments of the
triumphal monument erected in the sec-
ond century, B. C, to the memory of
Attalus II., in Pergamos, Asia Minor,
then at the zenith of its glory as a centre
of art, wealth and influence.

The Princeton University is the owner
of the original life-size Carrara marble
statue of "Nydia," by Randolph Rogers.
It was executed by Rogers at Rome,
Italy, in 1856. Subsequently other copies
were made ; one was at the "Centennial
Exposition," and another in the A. T.
Stewart collection. To this idealization
of the blind girl of Pompeii is attributed
Rogers's fame as an artist and sculptor,
securing for him the commission to de-
sign (1858) the bronze doors for the
Capitol in Washington, D. C, and to
finish the Washington monument at Rich-
mond, Virginia (1861). "The American
Register," Paris, France, in referring to
this gift of Dr. Coles, said : "The original
statue of 'Nydia' was given to Princeton
University in appreciation of the mutual
regard which for more than fifty years
existed between the trustees, faculty, and

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instructors of the College, and the donor's
father, the late Abraham Coles, M. D.,
Ph. D., LL. D."

The Rev. Francis S. Patton, D. D.,
LL. D., acknowledged the gift as follows:

Princeton, N. J., Aug. 3rd, 1896.
To Dr. J. Ackerman Coles,

Deerhurst, Scotch Plains, N. J.:

At the meeting of the board of trustees of the
College of New Jersey, held during Commence-
ment Week, in June last, I had the pleasure of
reporting to them that I had received in behalf
of the College, from you, the beautiful marble
statue of "Nydia," which you so kindly presented
to the College in memory of your father, the late
Dr. Abraham Coles.

The gift was very gratefully received by the
trustees, and 1 was requested in their behalf to
write to you expressing the very cordial thanks
of the trustees for the beautiful statue which now
adorns the Museum of Historic Art. I have
great pleasure in discharging the duty assigned
to me by the trustees. "Nydia" will always be
associated in our minds with the memory of your
gifted father, and I venture to hope that the com-
mon interest which you and we have in this
masterpiece of the sculptor's art will constitute
a strong bond between you and Princeton Uni-
versity.

The "New York Tribune," in speaking
of a gift to Harvard University, said :

Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, of Newark, whose gifts
of valuable art objects to educational and public
bodies have been generous, and who lately gave
to Chicago University an heroic bust of Homer,
has just presented to Harvard University a life-
size bronze bust of Socrates, in memory of his
father, Dr. Abraham Coles, of Newark, a well-
known classical scholar and author. The donor,
in giving the bronze to Harvard, said he desired
it to be a reminder of the friendly relations that
existed between his father and the officers, pro-
fessors and graduates of Harvard, especially
President Thomas Hill, Henry Wadsworth Long-
fellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes.

President Charles W. Eliot, LL. D.,

wrote :

Dr. J. Ackerman Coles:
Dear Sir:

Your letter is just received. I hasten to say
that the gift of the bronze bust of Socrates, with
its marble pedestal will be very welcome to Har-
vard University. 1 am obliged to you for saying
that this valuable gift is intended as a reminder
of the friendly relations which existed for many
years between your father and the distinguished
men whose names you record. Your letter will
be deposited in the archives of the University.
Believe me with high regard.

Sincerely yours, Charles \V. Eliot.

The life-size Carrara marble group rep-
resenting "Hagar and Ishmael in the Wil-
derness of Beersheba," the masterpiece
executed by Alessandro F. Cavazza in
Modena, Italy, in 1872, is a gift of Dr.
Coles to the Dutch Reformed Theological
Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The "New York Christian Intelligencer,"
in referring thereto, says, "Ishmael in his
utter weakness has loosened his hold on
Hagar's neck, and has fallen back, appar-
ently lifeless across her left knee. The
relaxed muscles of the lad, his death-like
countenance, the agonized look of his
mother, and the minute details of finished
expression, show the artist to have pos-
sessed the skill and knowledge (anatomi-
cal and ecclesiastical) requisite for its
accurate portrayal." President Wood-
bridge was authorized to accept the gift,
and to assure the donor, on behalf of the
board of superintendents and the faculty
that the gift would be highly appreciated.
Later he received the following:

GENERAL SYNOD, REFORMED CHURCH

IN AMERICA.

Raritan, New Jersey, June n, 1897.

I have been directed by the General Synod to

forward to you a copy of the following action,

taken at its recent session held at Asbury Park,

New Jersey :

"Resolved, That the General Synod of the Re-
formed Church in America, hereby assures Dr.
J. Ackerman Coles * * * that the gift of

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statuary representing Hagar and Ishmael is fully
appreciated, and that the thanks of the Synod is
hereby tendered to the generous donor."
Respectfully,

William De Hart,
Stated Clerk.

The Rev. John H. Vincent, D. D., LL.
J)., bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and chancellor of Chautauqua
University, of which he was the founder,
wrote to Dr. Coles from Chautauqua on
July 14, 1897, that a telegram had just
been sent by him to the "New York Tri-
bune," stating that a beautiful bronze
life-size bust of Beethoven, with its mar-
ble pedestal, had been received as a gift
from Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, of New
York, and was greatly appreciated by the
university. Subsequently Chancellor Dr.
Vincent wrote to Dr. Coles:

In connection with a great amphitheatre con-
cert at Chautauqua under the direction of Dr.
Palmer, the bronze bust of Beethoven was un-
veiled. Just before the unveiling, President G.
Stanley Hall, of Clark University, delivered an
address on music. As the veil was lifted, the
amphitheatre gave the splendid Chautauqua
salute in honor of Beethoven, and in recognition
of Dr. Coles. Immediately following this, Mr.
William H. Sherwood gave a piano solo, the "So-
nata Apassionata," by Beethoven. The per-
formance was brilliant, and the Chautauqua
salute was also given to Professor Sherwood.

In August, 1897, George Williamson
Smith, D. D., LL. D., president of Trin-
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, wrote
to Dr. Coles as follows: "A letter just
received from Bishop Williams informs
me of your kind offer to present to Trin-
ity College a life-size bronze bust of Mo-
zart. We shall be very glad to have such
a valuable addition to our collection of
objects of art, and place it in Alumni
Hall, where the portraits of benefactors
and presidents are hung." Later Dr.
Smith wrote: "The boxes containing the
bronze bust of Mozart and its marble

pedestal have been opened, and the work
is placed in Alumni Hall, where it attracts
attention and awakens just admiration."

President Merrill E. Gates, Ph. D., L.
H. D., LL. D., on receipt of a gift from
Dr. Coles of a life-size bronze bust of
Virgil for Amherst College, wrote : "It
has great and exceptional value in itself,
and coming from you as a gift in memory
of your father, his regard for Amherst
College and his relations with us in the
past, it will have a double value."

A life-size bronze bust of George Wash-
ington, by Jean Antoine Houdon, a gift
of Dr. Coles, is at Mount Vernon, in the
home of Washington, where the artist
spent three weeks taking measurements
and casts for the full length marble statue,
ordered by the Legislature for the State
of Virginia, and now in the State House
at Richmond.

Says the "Morris County Chronicle:"
"At Washington's Headquarters, Morris-
town, New Jersey, Washington's birth-
day was celebrated February 22, 1898.
Austin Scott, LL. D., President of Rut-
gers College, New Brunswick, New Jer-
sey, delivered an able address on Wash-
ington, after which Jonathan W. Roberts,
President of the Association, announced
the receipt of a valuable bronze from Dr.
J. Ackerman Coles and called upon the
donor for some remarks concerning the
same. Dr. Coles replied:

As executor of the estate of my father, the late
Dr. Abraham Coles, I would have been derelict
in the discharge of my duty if, in the distribution
of works of art to the various institutions of
learning he loved, I had omitted to remember
Washington's Headquarters at Morristown, New
Jersey, a building which is said to have sheltered
more statesmen, military and naval heroes con-
nected with our war for independence than any
other home in America; the home where for
many months Martha Washington, as hostess,
hospitably entertained her husband's guests ;
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1/70, met, laid siege to, and won the heart of the
daughter of General Schuyler; where from time
to time gathered members of the Continental Con-
gress; in front of which mansion, Washington's
bodyguard of one hundred Virginians kept watch
day and night. In every room and on every wall
are objects of historic interest. Therefore, Mr.
President, I esteem it a privilege and a pleasure
to be permitted to add something thereto, and as
a member of the Washington Association, in
memory of my father, the late Dr. Abraham
Coles, I now proffer for your acceptance the
bronze medallion bearing the stamp of Tiffany
and Company, representing in bas-relief, life-
size portraits of George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant, entitled "Tri-
umviri Americani," and designated also, respec-
tively, Pater, 1 780- 1793 — Sal vator, 1861-1865 —
Custos, 1860-1873. (Father. Savior and Pre-
server )

Upon vote the gift was unanimously
accepted with thanks.

The following stanzas are from a poem
written on a visit to Mount Vernon by
Dr. Abraham Coles :

I sing to him, the good, the brave,
Whose mighty dust in glory sleeps.
Where broad Potomac swells and sweeps

\nd mourns and murmurs past his grave.

0 spot most hallowed! Shrine most blest!
Where every pebble, wild flower, blade
Of common grass, is sacred made:

The Mecca of the Christian West

Here un forgetful pilgrim feet,

From all the earth, shall come and crowd;

And half mankind with forehead bowed,
Moist tributes pay and homage meet

What though no mausoleum towers
In marble grandeur, grace of art,
His monument's the human heart,

Immortal as this soul of ours.

Memorial of sculptured stone
Is needed not; no slab so rough
As not to serve: it is enough

Bears it the name of Washington.

A valuable tract of Florida land which
the University has sold for five thousand
dollars ; a life-size bronze bust by Houdon
of George Washington, given in memory
of his intimate friend. General Howard ;
and one also of Abraham Lincoln, are
among the gifts contributed by Dr. Coles

to the Lincoln Memorial University at
Harrowgate, near Cumberland Gap, Ten-
nessee. It was founded twenty years ago
by General Oliver Otis Howard, and its
twentieth anniversary was celebrated in
connection with the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln, three days successively — Febiu-
ary 12, 1 3 and 14, [917. There were pres-
ent a large assemblage of members of
Congress, representatives of colleges and
other distinguished guests. Dr. and Miss
Coles being unable to accept the invita-
tion of the trustees to be present, supple-
mented their previous gifts by additional
ones; Miss Coles sending from Tiffany
& Co., New York, an imported large
female bronze figure by M. M. Edouard of
the Ecole des Reaux Arts, emblemizing
Science, who holding an open book is
apparently explaining the meaning of
Virgil's "Labor improbus omnia vincit"
inscribed on its open page.

Dr. Coles sent as his gift a set of the
Founder's Copy of the "History of North
America," Guy Carleton Lee, Ph. D., and
Francis Newton Thorpe, Ph. D., editors,
issued in the interest of the beautiful
Washington Memorial at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, of which there were only
one hundred sets numbered and registered
for subscribers to the building fund. Pub-
lishers. George Barrie & Sons. Philadel-
phia.

Two volumes are devoted to the Civil
War, one written from the Southern, the
other from the Northern standpoint. Very
much space is occupied by the history of
Abraham Lincoln's administration.

A letter sent with the gifts was ac-
companied by the following sonnet, writ-
ten by Abraham Coles. M. D., Ph. D.,
LL. D., during the Civil War, a tribute
to Lincoln. They were both read by
request of President George H. Hub-
bell, and Chancellor Hill, by the Rev.
John S. Allen, D. D., of New York, who
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gifts, which were gratefully accepted for
the University in a courteous and cordial
address by President George H. Hub-
bell:

Lincoln twice summoned to the helm of state

Be thine to bring a calm upon the deep

In which the eyes of war may ever sleep!

Quell bloody enmity and civil hate!

From all unchristian broils and homicides.

By the religious sword of Justice, free

The land baptized anew to Liberty!

Search out where unrepentant Treason hides.

Thy soul's eye sharpened with that sacred Light

Of which the sun itself is but a beam,

And be thou firm and faithful to the Right

Though topt with titles, high in men's esteem,

To Virtue's pilotage must thou resort

Else shipwreck shall betide in safest port.

We heard one day the following re-
mark of a well-known clergyman : "Dr.
Coles in the spirit of his life — for you
know he was a great admirer of Abraham
Lincoln — came as near as any one I ever
knew to fulfilling the maxim : "With
malice toward none, with charity toward
all'."

To the late Hon. Joseph P. Bradley,
LL. D., one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States of America, a
warm friend, Dr. Coles wrote: "It is a
pity that all do not estimate law as you
do, as a sacred thing, a kind of religion ;
so regarded, it is a spiritual force related
to celestial dynamics. I remember when
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was
first proposed, some said that it would be
a brutum fulmen. I did not think so. I
believed it would be a live thunderbolt,
heaven forged, swift, subtle, far-reach-
ing, far-flaming, irresistible, striking to
the centre, and so it proved. "Where the
word of a king is, there is power."

"Deerhurst," since their father's death,
has continued to be the country residence
of Dr. Coles and of his sister, Miss Coles.
The "Boston Transcript" says:

Back from the house a short distance is the
deer park ; farther on is the labyrinth, a fac-
simile of the Maze at Hampton Court, England.
The mansion itself is substantial, elegant and

beautiful, and is replete with articles rich and
rare, gathered in journeyings through foreign
lands. The library is an ideal room. It is open
to the roof, the rafters coming down in grace-
ful sweeps, with here and there odd little windows,
and deeper ones reaching to the floor and opening
to balconies. On every side are books, in massive
cases, filling deep recesses, on shelves substantially
built around corners and supported by ornamental
columns, and on daintier shelves arranged above
one's head, a vast and varied collection, in all
languages, carefully and worthily bound. One
very rare volume is remarkable as being the first
book printed containing Arabic Types, and is
entitled "Psalterium, Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabi-
um, et Chaldaeum, cum tribus Latinis interpreta-
tionibus. Genuae, Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516."
Folio, half-green morocco. This, the first Poly-
glot psalter, edited by Agostino Gustiniani, is im-
portant, also as containing the first printed biog-
raphy of Columbus. It is printed as a long mar-
ginal note of Psalm XIX.

"The fine collection of paintings, curios
and bric-a-brac belonging to Dr. Coles,"
says the "New York Tribune," "which
has been on exhibition in the Art Gallery
of "The Coles Homestead," No. 222 Mar-
ket street, Newark, New Jersey, for the
benefit of the Newsboys Building Fund,
is without exception one of the choicest
collections in Newark, if not in the State."

The Art critic of "The Queen," London,
says of one of the oil paintings (ten feet
by five feet), entitled "The Fall of Man,"
by Bouverie Goddard, and exhibited by
him at the Royal Academy, London, Eng-
land, in 1877: * * * "Second to no
picture painted since Sir Edwin Landseer's
palmy days, in which animal forms and
character have been represented and ex-
pressed on canvas, is Mr. Goddard's truly
noble 'Fall of Man.' In the distance ap-
pears the vision of the celestial warrior
guardians of the gate of that blissful gar-
den, no longer the home of the fallen ones,
from which, for the first time conscious of
the fierce instincts of their nature, vari-
ous animals are rushing away in amaze-
ment and alarm."

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"The picture portrays," says "The Acad-
emy," "the savagery of the brute nature,
ensuing upon the disobedience of Adam
and Eve. * * * The difficulty of Mr.
Goddard's attempt becomes all the great-
er, in that he does not represent any
actual attack of one animal upon another,
but only the moment when the attacking
and ravenous impulse arises and mani-
fests itself in feature and demeanor."

"We have not for a long time met with
a picture of animals by an Englishman,"
says the "Athennsum," "showing so much
care, energy, and learning as Mr. God-
dard's 'The Fall of Man,' in which the
beasts, terrified by the portents attending
'The Fall,' rush from the neighborhood
of Eden, new ferocity being manifested
by their actions and expressions."

The "London Times" says: "One is
first puzzled to account for the tremen-
dous commotion among Mr. Rouverie
Goddard's wild beasts, carried to its
height in a powerfully designed and well
painted foreground group of a lion, lion-
ess, and cubs, till we learn from the ex-
tract of Milton, appended to it, that such
was the effect produced among the beasts
of the forest by 'The Fall of Man.' They
are supposed to sympathize with the signs
in the Heaven, the eclipsed sun, the
lowering sky, the muttering thunder
and sad drops 'wept at the completing
of the mortal sin'." This remarkable
painting is shown on the left-hand wall
in the steel engraving of the Library of
Deerhurst, as are also two other paint-
ings by Goddard. on the opposite wall,
viz., "The Combat" (seven feet by four
feet), painted and exhibited in the Royal
Academy in 1870. Of this painting
the "London Times" of May 30 said :
"After Sir Edwin's animal pictures, per-
haps there is nothing so remarkable as
the way the painter has brought his land-
scape and animals into harmonious imagi-

native conditions as Mr. B. Goddard's
'Combat.' * * Full of action, orig-

inal in grouping, and forcible in light and
shade, this really is a powerful picture,
an excellent illustration of the wealth of
subject that lies yet undrawn upon in
the wide range of animal life." The
third painting by Goddard (nine feet by
five feet) representing "A Sale of New
Forest Ponies at Lyndhurst, England,"
is regarded as equal in merit to the
"Horse Fair," by Rosa Bonheur. "The
Fall of Man" Dr. Coles has given to the
New Jersey Historical Society, and the
painting of "The Combat" to the Free
Public Library for the Newark (New Jer-
sey) Museum of Art. The painting of
the Ponies now hangs in the assembly
room t'f the Memorial Home for Orphans
at Mountainside, Union county, New Jer-
sey.

Another remarkable painting in the
Newark exhibit was the one entitled "The
Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy," painted by
I i. P. A. Healy in Rome, in 1871 (canvas
forty-eight by seventy-three inches). The
poet Longfellow and his daughter are
represented standing underneath the
Arch, while the artist. F. E. Church, is
seated sketching with G. P. A. Healy ami
J. McEntree looking over his shoulder.
All are excellent portraits. Through the
great arch an excellent view is had of the
Colosseum beyond. Among other paint-
ings of the Coles collection we name the
following: Five by J. F. Cropsey, one of
Corfe Castle, England (seven by five
feet), given by Dr. Coles to the High
School at Newark : one of Lake Nemi on
the Appian Way, Italy (six by four feet),
ami three others: five by Albert Bier-
Stedt, one of Mount Hood in Oregon (six
by four feet), one of Niagara Falls, one.
of Goat Island, one of Mount Blanc in a
storm, one of Mount Blanc from near
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three by Daniel Huntington, including a
portrait of Dr. Abraham Coles ; two by
A. T. Bricher ; three by J. F. Kensett ;
three by F. E. Church ; two by Thomas
Moran ; two by Edward Moran ; two by
H. P. Smith; one by Benjamin West;
one by James M. Hart; William Hart;
Julian Scott ; Edward Gay ; George In-
ness; W. S. Hazeltine; John Constable,
R. A., England (1776-1837), "Dedham
Vale," a quiet, unpretentious landscape
from the collection of Clifford Constable,
the painter's grandson ; R. A. Brunery ;
L. Verboeckhoven ; A. Reinert ; Paul Jean
Clays; Jan. Chilnisky ; J. Carabain ; H.
De Buel ; Rosa Bonheur (pen and ink
sketch) ; J. H. L. De Haas; Edward Por-
tielge; B. C. Kock Kock ; J. G. Brown;
N. A. Diaz de la Pena ; J. B. C. Corot ;
Constant Troyon ; Hans Makart ; Theo-
dore Rousseau ; Eugene Fichel ; Julian
Dupre ; Jules Dupre ; Charles Jacque ; C.
F. Daubigny ; H. Delacroix ; F. De Vere ;
Lazerges ; V. G. Stiepevich ; Jean Fran-
cis Millet; Anton Mauve; "The Trum-
peter of Sackingen" (six feet, seven
inches, by four feet, six inches) by
R. Eisermann ; A. Steinheil, Adolf
Schreyer. A large Paris Salon painting
by F. A. Bridgman, of Pharaoh in pur-
suit of the Israelites on the bed of the
Red Sea, Dr. Coles gave to Columbia
University in the City of New York.

Other paintings believed to be genuine
are attributed to Rembrandt ; Peter Pour-
bus (15 10-1583) ; David Teniers, the
Younger (1610-1690) ; Du Bois ; Til Borg
(1625-1678) ; Luca Giordano (1632-1701);
"Europa" (six by five feet), from Prince
Borghese sale, Rome ; Jean Steen ; Ger-
ard Douw; Hans Memling (1440-1495).
the eminent decorator of missals and
church books; Jacob Backer (1609-1651),
pupil of Rembrandt, "The Antiquarian"
(six by four feet) ; Ostade : Minderhout ;
Hobbinier: Holbein (1498-1543), portrait
of his patron Henry VIII ; Salvator Rosa ;

Rivera (1588-1650); Gerard (1770-1837) ;
Dana Cox (1783-1859) ; and an historical
painting by Peter Paul Rubens of "C.
Mucius Scaevola (Left Handed)," a Ro-
man hero, who according to legend, when
Lars Porsena was-besieging Rome, in 509
B. C, concealed a dagger about his
person and went out to the King's camp
with the intention of putting him to
death, but killed instead a royal secretary,
whom he mistook for Porsena. He was
threatened with death by fire, unless he
revealed the details of a conspiracy which
was said to have been formed at Rome
for the purpose of assassinating Porsena ;
whereupon he thrust his right hand into
a sacrificial fire on an altar hard by. This
firmness excited the admiration of Por-
sena, who ordered him to be released.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, in his
"Lays of Ancient Rome," thus refers to
the incident:

Now, by your children's cradles, now oy your

fathers' graves,
Be men to-day, Quirites, or be forever slaves!
For this did Servius give us laws? For this did

Lucrece bleed?
For this was the great vengeance wrought on

Tarquin's evil seed?
For this did those false sons make red the axes

of their sire?
For this did Scaevola's right hand hiss in Tuscan

fire?
Shall the vile fox-earth awe the race that

stormed the lion's den?
Shall we, who could not brook one lord, crouch

to the wicked Ten?

Among other valuable paintings is a
most excellent one by Joseph Mallord
William Turner (1775-1851), admitted by
critics to be, in all respects, one of his
best.

In the Library of Dr. Coles one volume
of special value is a fine copy of the work
of John James Audubon, F. R. S. L. and
E., the great American naturalist, entitled
"Ornithological Biography," or an ac-
count of the habits of the birds of the
United States of America, accompanied
by descriptions of the objects represented

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in the work entitled "The Birds of Amer-
ica," and intersper-cl with delineations
of American scenery and manners; five
volumes, half leather, Edinburgh, 1831-
1839. This set is especially interesting
by reason of its being an autograph pres-
entation copy of the author to his friend,
an eminent jurist in New York City, who
has written on the fly-leaf of the first
volume as follows:

Mr. Audubon told me that he did not sell more
than forty copies of his great work in England,
Ireland, Scotland, and France, of which Louis
Philippe took ten. The following received their
copies hut never paid for them: George IV,
Duchess of Clarence. Marquis of Londonderry,
Princess of Hamburg. An Irish Lord, whose
name he would not give, took two copies and
paid for neither. Rothschild paid for his copy,
hut with great reluctance Mr \uduhon said
further that he sold seventy-five copies in Amer-
ica, twenty-six in New York, and twenty-four in
Boston ; that the work cost him 27,000 pounds
sterling, and that he lost 25,000 dollars by it.

He said that Louis Philippe offered to sub-
scribe for one hundred copies if he would pub-
lish the work in Paris ; this he found could not
be done, as it would have required forty years
to finish it as things were in Paris. Of this con-
versation I made a memorandum at the time,
which I read over to Mr Audubon and he pro-
nounced it correct.

In addition to the above mentioned five
volumes, Dr. Coles has elephant folio
plates of the birds and the animals of
North America. The birds are the size
and colors of life. In his volume I. Audu-
bon says :

Not only is every object, as a whole, of the
natural size, but, also, every portion of each
object. * * * The great size of the paper on
which the representations are offered could not
be avoided without giving up the desire of pre-
senting to the world these my favorite objects in
nature of the size which Nature has given to
them.

Every individual possessed of a sound heart,
listens with delight to the love notes of the wood-
land warblers. He never casts a glance upon
their lovely forms without proposing to himself

questions respecting them ; nor does he look on
the trees which they frequent, or the flowers over
which they glide, without admiring their gran-
deur, or delighting in their sweet odours, or their
brilliant tints. Should you, good-natured reader,
be a botanist, I hope you will find pleasure, while
lc oking at the flowers, the herbs, the shrubs, and
the trees, which I have represented.

The friends Audubon made in Europe
included Sir Thomas Lawrence, Herschel,
Sir Walter Scott, "Christopher North"
Cuvier. Humboldt and St. llillaire. In
1827 he issued the prospectus of his
famous work, "The Birds of America,"
which originally came out in numbers.
He had not money enough to pay the
printer for the first number until, through
the influence of Sir Thomas Lawrence,
the painter, he was enabled to sell some
of his pictures. The first bill that he had
to meet was for five hundred pounds.
There were one hundred and seventy sub-
scribers at one thousand dollars each.

In his descriptions Audubon has woven
passages of the most exciting personal
adventures. On May I, 1839, he wrote
from Edinburgh : "I have pleasure in say-
ing that my enemies have been few and
my friends numerous. May the God who
granted me life, industry and persever-
ance to accomplish my task forgive the
former, and forever bless the latter!"

Dr. Coles is continually sending valu-
able books to Public Libraries, Universi-
ties, Colleges and High Schools in the
United States and in foreign lands.

Says the Newark "Sunday Call:"

An addition to the treasures of the Free Public

Library is the gift from Dr. J. Ackerman Coles
of a rare and magnificent copy of "The Birds of
America," by John James Audubon. The large
volume is a reprint published in i860 of the
famous Elephant folio published by Audubon be-
tween 1830 and 1839. The large size of the plates
are much in excess of the regular size and gave
the edition the name it bears. It contains 97
pages and 138 drawings. The volume was pub-
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chromo-Iithography being the work of J. Bien.
It is said that these now rare volumes are valued
at about $1,200.

At Dr. Coles' suggestion four of the plates have
been removed from the book and framed. The
richly colored pictures have been placed in the
central court facing the main stairway. The
plates thus exhibited show the American flamingo,
the wild turkey, fish hawk and Iceland, or jer
falcon.

The Public Library has recently received also
from Dr. Coles for the Newark Museum of
Art illustrated books, sixty-seven in number, sev-
eral of them measuring two feet in length and
a foot and a half across. The height of the
towering pile is over nine feet. Its interest and
value are not confined to dimensions. Among
these books are works that are world famous ;
many of them contain very rare steel and copper
engravings, their worth being estimated at several
hundred dollars. They are the generous gift of
Dr. J. Ackerman Coles to the Newark Museum.

The collection is one to delight trained bibli-
ophile and amateur alike. The bindings and
bookplates and inscriptions alone offer a fascinat-
ing study, while the chief value, it is said, lies in
the illustrations. Besides the copper and steel
engravings already mentioned there are hundreds
of photogravures, color etchings, etchings in
black, lithographs, water color fac similes and
illuminated engravings. A few of the books are
absolutely without text and the subject matter of
the others deals with various branches of art.
There are several fine bindings of polished calf
and one regally bound subscription set of ten
volumes in half-levant with calf sides. This
edition of the "Exposition Universelle" is printed
on Whatman drawing paper and limited to one
hundred registered and numbered sets. The pub-
lishers are said to ask $200 per volume. So
much for luxurious bookdress.

There are two volumes of the plans, elevations,
etc., of the Alhambra from drawings by M. Jules
Gourney and Owen Jones, the famous architect,
that have brought as high as $170 at book auc-
tions. Gourney died while preparing his draw-
ings and Owen Jones finished the books and dedi-
cated them to the memory of his friend. There
is a dual text in French and English to supple-
ment the fifty-one rarely fine steel engravings
and lithographs of this wonderful old Moorish
palace in Granada, "once a kingdom in Spain."

Four cases of medallions, book-encased, are
of unusual interest. These medallions are re-
productions of those to be found in the museums

of Italy and include copies of those in the mu-
seums at Florence and Venice and the Vatican.

The history student will find his way to the
two volumes of ancient arms and "Armour,"
attracted by the splendid coloring of the illu-
minated engravings, and to Holmes's "Naval and
Military Trophies." The water color drawings
in the latter, executed by William Gibb, repro-
duce with detail and exactness historic treasures
from the Royal and Wellington collections and
English museums. The swords of Oliver Crom-
well and John Hampden are included and the
cloak of Napoleon. Two tattered American flags
captured in the War of 1812-14 are given as in
the collection belonging to the Royal Hospital,
Chelsea.

An interesting "presentation copy" of the Wo-
burn Abbey Marbles, ticketed in a fine hand,
"Presented by the Duke of Bedford," is a book
large in area with India proof plates of the draw-
ings of H. Corbould. The duke himself wrote
the descriptions of his marbles, and this special
volume contains a "laid-in" picture of him. The
book was privately printed and is exceedingly
rare. The duke is said to have bought up any of
the 180 copies appearing for sale.

From marbles to Greek vases is a natural step.
Sir William Hamilton, Envoy Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples, bad the
dignified hobby of collecting Greek vases, and his
collection is set forth in three volumes, with
many numbered plates and detailed descriptions.
The plate illustrating the twelve exquisitely
shaped and molded vases will appeal to the eye
of even him to whom all art is Greek.

Other books likely to be of general interest are
the nine volumes of Bernard Picart's "Religious
Ceremonies and Costumes;" the 120 engravings
from the works of J. M. W. Turner; paintings
of collections from the private galleries of wealthy
New Yorkers ; the copy of Poe's "Raven" illus-
trated by Gustave Dore, and the collection of
wood engravings by members of the Society of
American Wood Engravers. The latter contains
such well-known names as those of Victor Ber-
strom, W. B. Clossin, Henry Wolf, John Tinkey
and Elbridge Kinsley.

Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, widely known in New-
ark, is the son of Abraham Coles, physician and
hymn writer, whose monument stands in Wash-
ington Park. The present Dr. Coles lives in
Scotch Plains and has collected books and objets
d'art for years. Among his many gifts to the
Newark Library are several fine bronzes, includ-
ing replicas of the marble bust of Homer, the

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Venus di Milo head, Augustus Caesar, the Apollo
Belvidcre, Benjamin Franklin as a boy with his
whistle, and George Washington. The latter was
given in memory of the donor's father.

Following is a complete list of the
books presented to the Newark Museum

by Dr. Coles :

Albrecht Durer's Drawings.

Paoletti Impronte. Four cases of medallions
reproduced from originals in museums of Italy.

AJhambra. Plates giving plans and views of
the Alhambra.

Masterpieces by Fra Angelico.

Turner Gallery.

Superstitions Anciennes et Modernes. 2 vols.
1733-

Scheuchzer's Geestclvke Natuurkunde. 6 vols.
1735-38.

Montfaucon's Antiquitates Graecae et Ro-
mande. 1757.

Dissertazione sulle Statue di Niobe. 1779.

Collection de Gravures. Engravings after the
Italian school. 1806.

Schola Italica. 1806.

Architettura della Basilica Vaticano. 1812.

Visconti's Iconographie Romaine. 1817.

Woburn Abbey Marbles. 1822.

Mong< 's Iconographie Romaine. 1X24.

Li'_'!us and Shadows of New York Picture
Galleries. 1864.

Dell's Nature Pictures engraved by Paterson.
1871.

Coleridge. Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Illustrated by Gustave Dore. 1878.

Seguin's Picturesque Tour in Picturesque
lands. 1881.

F.ngravings on Wood by Members of the So-
.ut\ ol American Wo. id Engravers, 1887.

Hitchcock. Art of the World Illustrated in
the Paintings, Statuary and Architecture of the
World's Columbia Exposition. 2 vols. 1894.

Hoi,,, R. R. Naval and Military Trophies.
Water Colour Drawings by William Gibb. 1896.

Exposition Universelle, 1900. The Chefs-
d'Oeuvres. 10 vols.

Tissot's Life of Jesus Christ. 3 vols.

Picart's Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses.
9 vols. 1723-43-

Hamilton's Engravings from Ancient Vases.
3 vols. 1791-95.

Forster's British Gallery of Engravings. 1807.

Meyrick's Antient Armour. 3 vols. 1842.

Alhambra, Plans, Elevations, etc., from draw-
ings 1 j M Jules Gourney and Owen Jones. 2
vols. [842-45.

Meyrick's Engraved Illustrations of Antient
Arms and Armour. _> vols. [834.

Poe. The Raven. Illustrated bv Gustave Dore.
1884.

I .irter's Ancient Sculpture and Paintings in
England. 1887.

The New York Vanderbilt Collection of Paint-
ing and Art Treasures, in four large folio vol-
umes, bound in full levant leather.

The library of Dr. and Miss Coles

has many beautifully bound illuminated
books, the products of the middle ages.
Some of the rarest and most elegant
works bound in full levant leather, with
inlaid doublures, are from the Robert
Hoe (of printing press fame) collection.
Among works of special value and in-
terest are mentioned the following:

lour sets only of the "Diary and Correspond-
ence of Samuel Pepys" were printed on vellum,
signed by L. De Vinna & Co., the one owned
by Robert Hoe and now the property of Dr.
Coles, is No. 2 registered. This set is said to
have been bound for Mr. Hoe in Paris for five
hundred dollars per volume, and there are ten
volumes. Each volume has in it Mr. Hoe's book
plate and has a leather case with clasps.

"Military and Religious Life in the Middle
Ages and of the Period of the Renaissance," is by
Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), curator of the
Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. It is
illuminated; full levant leather binding; hand
tooled; three volumes, London, Chapman &
Hall, 1874.

The works of Moliere illustrated by M
Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Jacques Leman
and Edmund Hedouin. Full levant, doublures of
leather and silk, have much inlaid work, hand
tooled, eleven volumes. Paris — Chez Barrie
Freres, Editeurs.

The works of Shakespeare, edited by W. E.
Henley. This artist's Bibliophile edition was
limited to fifteen copies, of which the one owned
by Dr. Coles is signed "Publisher's Copy." It is
bound in full levant leather, with doublures, with
inlaid beautiful paintings; there are twenty vol-
umes luxuriously illustrated and have leather slip
'Mined at Edinburgh by T. & A. Con-
stable. Subscription price is said to have been
more than $300 for each volume.

Two large folio portfolios of the works of
Meissonier, also — "Meissonier — His Life and His
Art," by Vallery C. O. Greard, De L'Academie.
Victor Recteur de L'Academie de Paris. With
extracts from his note books, and his opinions
and impressions on art and artists collected by
ins widow. Translated from the French by Lady
Mary I.oyd and Mrs. Florence Simmonds with
38 plates and 236 text illustrations, New York. A.
C. Armstrong & Son, 1897, in two volumes; this
edition on Japanese vellum was limited to too
copies, including 25 for America, of which Dr.
Coles's is No. 83, signed by A. C. Armstrong &
Son, December 21, 1896. The binding is full

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levant leather, doublure silk, Robert Hoe's book
plate is in each. Richard Clay & Son, London.
The Waverly Novels — Collectors, autograph
edition. Limited for sale in America to ten
numbered and registered sets of which Dr.
Coles' set is No. 6 and is signed by George D.
Sproul, publisher, 1900. Full leather, inlaid work
elegantly illustrated. Doublures with Walter
Scott's coat-of-arms.

The library has also beautiful folio and
quarto leather bound editions of works
illustrating the art collections of Europe
in the public and private galleries and
Paris Salon. "The Lives of the Queens
of England," by Agnes Strickland, in
eight volumes, are bound in full levant
leather, with doublures inlaid with twenty
miniature portraits of the Queens, painted
on ivory by Miss Currie, all enclosed in
a spring leather case of ingenious work-
manship. Published by Colburn & Com-
pany, London, 1851. Bound by Sungor-
ski & Sutcliff, London. Extra illustrated,
1852.

A sumptuous volume owned by Dr.
Coles is that of the "Portraits of the Sov-
ereigns of England," engraved from the
best authorities by W. H. Worthenton,
London; published by William Pickering,
1824. There are thirty-six fine portraits
on India paper. Folio superbly bound in
full crimson polished levant morocco,
both sides covered with beautifully hand-
tooled designs, consisting of roses, .the
intervening spaces being filled with min-
ute pointille tooling, with twenty-four
highly finished portrait miniatures paint-
ed on ivory by Miss Currie; morocco
joints, broad inside borders, blue watered
silk doublures and ends, gilt edges ; en-
closed in a polished levant morocco pull-
off case by Riviere, 1824.

The miniatures are arranged as fol-
lows: Front cover — Mary II.; Mary I.;
Mary, Queen of Scots ; Charles I. ; Charles
IL: Klizabeth ; George I.; George II.;
George III.; Oliver Cromwell; George

IV.; Anne. Back cover — James L; Ste-
phen; Edward I.; Edward III.; Richard
III.; Edward I.; Henry III.; Henry
VIII.; Henry IV.; William I.; Henry I.;
William II.

A very fine effect is introduced in the
decoration of this charming example. The
minute pointille tooling shows up the
dull gold, against which the larger floral
pattern of roses shows up bright like
burnished gold.

Dr. Coles' collection of Bibles is par-
ticularly interesting. It includes the
Breeches Bible, Gen. iii, said to have
been the personal property of King James
of England. It has on its morocco bound
cover the royal coat-of-arms. It was
printed at Geneva by John Crespin, 1568.
Bound with it is a "Calender Historical,
wherein is contained an easie declaration
of the Golden Number;" "The Epacti —
"The Indiction Romaine ;" "The Cycle of
Sunne, 1569;" "The whole Book of
Psalms, collected into English metr, by
T. Sternhold, Hopkins and others, con-
ferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to
synge them with all, faithfully perused
and allowed according to the order ap-
pointed in the Quenes Majestie Injunc-
tions;" also "Prayers for all occasions;"
"The Articles of the Faiths ;" "The Com-
mandments ;" "Instruction of Children
in the Faith ;" also the "New Testament
of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
conferred diligently with the Greek and
best approved translations in divers lan-
guages." The whole dedicated to "The
Moste Virtuous and Noble Ouene Eliza-
beth, Quene of England, France and Ire-
land, whose humble subjects of the Eng-
lish Church at Geneva, wish peace and
grace from God the Father through
Christ Jesus our Lord — Geneva, 1569."

An illustrated copy in black letter, full
morocco binding, of "The Bishop's Bible,
conteynyng the Olde Testament and the

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Newe, set forth by authorities and im-
printed at London by the assignment of
Christopher Barker, her Majestie's Prynt-
ter, 1578." It is known and stamped as
Archbishop Cranmer's Bible, from its
containing a "Prologue, or preface, made
by Thomas Cranmer, late Archbishop of
Canterburie." It is also known as the
"Triacle Bible," from the reading of verse
22, chapter viii, of the book of Jeremiah,
which reads: "Is there not triacle at
Gilead, is there no physician there." In
King James' version we read: "Is there
no balm in ( "lilead." His Luther's Bible :
Largest Type Bible in seven volumes:
"Biblia Vulgata," 1714, with others, add
to the interest felt in the inspired writings.
From the Centennial Year number of
the "Bible Society Record" we take the
following article by Miss Emilie S. Coles,
written at the request of the editors. \vh<>
say :

Miss Coles has been a life member of the
American Bible Society since April 24, 1868, a
period approaching fifty years. She and her
brother, Dr. Coles, have been deeply interested
in all forms of mission work among many de-
nominations throughout the world, and it is a
pleasure to publish this account from Miss Coles'
pen of the beautiful Centenary Tower in Ran-
goon, Burma.

The American Centenary Clock and Bell
Tower in the City of Rangoon, Burma, British
India, reaches completion while the American
Bible Society celebrates its Centenary. It is a
thank-offering to God the Father, "who sent his
Son to be the Saviour of the world"— the Son.
"who loved us and gave himself for us" — the
Holy Spirit, ever with us to "guide into all
truth."

We are assured that the Tower will last, with
care, for centuries. It is fireproof, the material
of which it is built being English white glazed
terra cotta. The first floor is of marble, and the
stairs leading to the Observation Room above
are of iron. The vane is bronze. With the four-
dail striking clock and the Westminster peal of
bells (after Handel), its cost will be over twelve
thousand dollars— paid by J. Ackerman Coles, M.
D., LL. D., of New York City. As an American, he

at the access, through divine power, of
American missionaries, aided by American mis-
sionary. Bible, and tract societies and other

On the first and largest bell are these words:
\ gi i 111 grateful recognition of what God has
wrought through American missionaries during
tin past one hundred years." It also has the
following inscription: "The Angel of the Lord
said, behold, I bring you good tidings of great
joy which shall be to all people: for unto you
is born * * * A Saviour, which is Christ the
Lord. * * * Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men." The
inscription on the second bell reads: "Mis Name
shall be called Wonderful, Counselor;" the third:
"The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father." The
fourth and smallest reads: "The Prince of
Peace."

Tin' Tower is a copy of the tower of the old
Colonial Church in Salem, Massachusetts, said to
have been patterned after the tower of an Eng-
lish church designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
Having passed through the tower of the old
Salem church on February 6, 1812, after their
ordination as the first American foreign mission-
aries to Asia, Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell,
Samuel Xott. with their wives, Gordon Hall, and
Luther Rice sailed for India, and, reaching Cal-
cutta the same year, were hospitably received by
the English missionary, William Carey. In 1813,
Adoniram Judson and his wife landed in Ran-
goon. We learn from Professor J. F. Smith that
Dr. Judson early undertook the task of trans-
lating the Bible into Burmese: that he completed
the New Testament in 1828. which was printed
in 1832; that he finished the translation of the
( )ld Testament in 1S34 and that it was issued the
ikxi year. The American Bible Society gave
$23,200 for the printing of Dr. Judson's version
of the Scriptures in Burmese. Dr. Coles has in
his library a copy of the Burmese Bible (second
edition), printed in Maulmain in 1840. On the
rly leaf is written:

To Mr. Robert Robinson, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, with the affectionate regards of the trans-
lator. A. Judson.

Maulmain, November 30, 1840.

Professor Smith adds that "the companions
and successors of Dr. Judson took up similar
tasks for other races. In the one hundred years
since the arrival of Dr. Judson in Rangoon the
Gospels, at least, have been translated into no
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Burma. The Christian message is now acces-
sible in their own tongues to nearly 1 1,000,000 of
the people of the land." Dr. Judson labored in
Burma nearly forty years, compiling also a Bur-
mese Dictionary, which is Burmese-English and
English Burmese.

In 1813 Luther Rice sailed for America to
solicit funds; and the Notts and Hall for Bom-
bay. In 1814 Newell joined them — bereft of his
wife and child. Through him the Ceylon Mis-
sion was begun in 1816. Gordon Hall was the
founder of the American Marathi Mission, India.
His tract on the needs of the heathen and the
duty of the churches in America led the beloved
physician, John Scudder, M. D., to leave his suc-
cessful practice in New York City, and with his
devout wife and child, sail for Jaffna, Ceylon, in
1819.

As he was bidding his friends farewell, his
words of glad assurance that the Lord was lead-
ing him caused James Brainard Taylor to sur-
render himself, also, to a like service, as mission-
ary to the American Indians. "From its first
year," says Dr. Henry O. Dwight, "the Ameri-
can Bible Society undertook to supply Scriptures
to missionaries among the American Indians."
For thirty-six years the Rev. John Scudder, M.
D., D. D., labored in Ceylon and on the conti-
nent of India, where he was aided and succeeded
by his seven sons, whose families still continue
their work.

The One Hundredth Annual Report of the
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
states: "One permanent result of the Judson
Centennial at Rangoon will be a Tower with a
clock and Westminster chimes. It will be in a
position where it can benefit the city at large,
an I will be a beautiful and fitting appreciation of
the missionary pioneers of a century ago and of
their successors down to the present day."

The Tower is seventy-five feet high by four-
teen feet square, and its site is well adapted to
evangelistic work.

A brick and stone chapel for the Karens
was erected by Dr. Coles near the Tower
site, a memorial to his mother and his
father.

A bronze tablet on the Tabernacle
Church at Salem, Massachusetts, reads as
follows :

On February 6, 1812, in the Tabernacle Church
on this site, Adoniram Judson, Gordon Hall,

Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott and Luther Rice
were ordained the first American Foreign Mis-
sionaries to the Heathen in Asia. This Cen-
tennial Tablet given by Jonathan Ackerman
Coles, M. D., LL. D., was cast 1902 to perpetu-
ate the memory of their zealous and successful
labors and those of their devoted wives in the
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

A correspondent of the "New York
Sun," under date of February 23, 1916,
wrote from Salem, Massachusetts: "The
bronze Tablet on the Flagstaff in Tri-
angle Park, South Salem., was unveiled
to-day and presented to the City. The
Tablet, Flag and Flagstaff were gifts of
J. Ackerman Coles, of New York, and
commemorate the enterprise and resolute
spirit with which Salem met the fire of
June 25, 1914."

The seventy-ninth annual report of the
American Telugo Missions, published at
Madras, India, says:

In this record (1915) we must not fail to re-
count one of its delightful surprises. Through
the generosity of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, of New
York City, we have received the gift of a beautiful
sixteen-foot Mullins steel motor launch, to carry
the Gospel up and down the Kurnool-Cuddapah
Canal. Ever since coming to Kurnool, twenty
years ago, says the Rev. Dr. W. A. Stanton, this
has been one of our dreams, but we never sup-
posed it would be realized. It would be in vain
for me to attempt to describe the beauties of this
little ship. Long may she plow these waters, a
messenger of peace and good will to the people
along these shores, who know not the love which
prompted the gift.

The Rev. Henry Huizinga, Ph. D.,
principal of the Coles Memorial High
School at Kurnool, British India, says:

The roll of students for 1914 consists of 113
Brahmans, 133 Non-Brahman Caste Hindus, 85
Christians, 62 Mohammedans and 5 Pandamas.
The teaching staff consists of twenty-two, of
which seven arc college graduates. Our class
average was higher than the presidency average,
in English, by nine per cent., in Sanscrit by two
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cent. Our principal aim is the development of
character, patriotism, love of honor, reverence
for God, and a spirit of service for humanity;
these are the chief features of the character we
desire to build up in the lives of the young men
who are under our influence.

The Rev. Lloyd C. Smith, M. A., prin-
cipal and manager of the Dr. Abraham
Coles and Mr. Warren Ackerman Memorial
High School for Boys in Nellore, British
South India, reports that the enrollment
has reached four hundred and fifty — that
in regard to examinations, their results
are considerably above the presidency
average, and in English are the best the
school has ever secured under the School
Final Scheme. Our Technical Depart-
ment continues to be both popular and
efficient. The organization of a students'
Young Men's Christian Association was
one of the features of interest of the year
1914. It seems to be a real force in the
life of the school, and gives the Christian
students a solidarity and standing they
have not enjoyed before. In connection
with the work of the Literary Societies,
Mr. Smith says, "we arrange for public
lectures in the school hall as opportunity
affords. "

Rev. Dr. David Downie writes:

Hostels are a real necessity, because suitable
quarters for students cannot be obtained in In-
dian towns. We have been engaged throughout
the year in the construction of the Hostel given
by Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, in memory of his
uncle, the late Mr. George Ackerman. As the
building rises, we see it assuming most splendid
proportions. It will be a substantial and beauti-
ful building, and a magnificent addition to our
plant. In hostels the boys are removed from
constant contact with heathen customs and people,
and are surrounded with Christian influences.
The Hostel at Kurnool is a gift of Dr. Coles in
memory of his uncle Mr. Theodore J. Ackerman,
a worthy citizen of New Haven, Connecticut, U.
S. A., and the Teacher's residence at Kurnool, a
gift in remembrance of the Doctor"s uncle, the
late Judge James Hervey Ackerman, A. B., LL. B.,
who for some time was associated with the Hon.

Amzi Dodd in the practice of law in Newark,
New Jersey, U. S. A., and subsequently practiced
in New York City.

The Kev. Dr. W. A. Stanton and Dr. Coles
have purchased a large tract of land near Kur-
nool, South India, and laid it out as a village
with streets, lined with shade trees, and have
built homes thereon ; each family being assigned
a small farm of five or more acres attached there-
to, have planted groves of mangoes and margosa
trees; have built a reservoir and pumping sta-
tion for irrigating the grounds; furnished plows,
oxen and a flock of sheep.

In a letter to Dr. Coles, Dr. Stanton

I have just returned from the village. I found
ihe people well and happy and working hard at
their farms. They have brought the lands which
I assigned them last hot season under cultivation,
and the crops look fine. If we continue to have
good rains they should have a bumper harvest.
The shepherd and his flock are doing well. The
flock has now increased in size. Our carpenter
is kept busy. He is an excellent workman and is
not only a carpenter but a blacksmith as well. I
took out fifty mango trees and planted them in a
garden. The trees we planted last year are doing
well, some of them being more than twice their
original size. As the garden is growing so rapidly
1 found it necessary to engage a gardener to look
after it. I found a very good man who has had
experience in such work and was able to secure
his services. In addition to looking after the trees
he is to have a vegetable garden and raise all
kinds of produce for sale. I shall make this a
kind of demonstration farm, in which I shall
show our people what crops can be best raised
on this land, and the best methods of cultivating
and harvesting. I think it will be a great benefit
to them. The rains have stopped at last, and so
I have begun work on an engine house for the
pump. That is nearly completed and then we
have to construct a reservoir for the pump and
fit up the plant. After we get that done we shall
start on the Rest House. VVe had the walls well
up when the rains came on and it has not been
possible to do anything since. But we shall push
on with the work now. On Sunday we had very
interesting services in the village. In the morn-
ing we had Sunday school and preaching service.
The people can all repeat the Ten Command-
ments and First and Twenty-third Psalms, They
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twenty new converts and received them into the
village church, and observed the Lord's Supper
We have now seventy-five resident church mem-
bers in the village, and our congregation on Sun-
days includes people who come from the sur-
rounding villages.

On August 7, 1915, the Rev. Dr. Stan-
ton wrote to Dr. Coles from Kurnool,
South India, as follows :

My Dear Dr. Coles:

We need a fine large church plant adequate in
size to meet the needs of our growing congrega-
tion and with class rooms for our Sunday school
and Bible work. I am sending under separate
registered cover the plans of the proposed church
building, so that you may see just what we want.
Mr. Pogson, one of the best authorities in Mad-
ras, has drawn the plans at my suggestion. I
told him what I wanted, and he has worked out
the ideas. The nave is sixty-four by thirty-six
feet, with steep gable roof, covered with Man-
golore red tiles. The gable peak is forty-eight
feet above the ground level In the interior there
are three huge arches, one at the chance! and one
at each of the transepts, which will give a very
imposing effect. The tower is one of the finest
features of the building — it is eighty-eight feet
to the summit, and is drawn on very beautiful
and imposing lines. The building will be con-
structed of the same beautiful stone as that used
in the High School and Hostel buildings and will
present a most artistic appearance.

The estimated cost for the ground and build-
ing, including its furnishing is $10,000. Of course
we could put up a much cheaper building than
this, but since, by your generosity, we have such
beautiful and artistic buildings as the Coles Me-
morial High School and the Coles Memorial Stu-
dents' Homes and the Coles Memorial Boarding
Home, it seems only appropriate that we should
have a beautiful church building. Would you like
to erect another memorial at Kurnool, dear Dr.
Coles? The reference committee have already
passed on the question and recommended to our
board that we have a new church building, on
condition that we can get the money for it : in
view of the present financial situation, there is
no hope of our board giving the money. Our
hope then is that our good friend. Dr. Coles,
who had done so much for us in the past, who so
often has stooped to meet our needs, shower-
ing us with his bounty and far exceeding
our demands, will see in this need also, another

opportunity of love and service. You have given
us a magnificent stone school building, which is
the pride of the town and the model for the
presidency. You have given us two fine stone
and brick hostels for our boys, iar surpassing
anything to be found in all these parts. You
have founded a Christian village, and estab-
lished new enterprises, making a Christian com-
munity self-supporting and independent. There
is just one thing more that we need here in Kur-
nool, dear Dr. Coles, and that is a beautiful
church, where our people may gather to worship
God, and about which may centre all the activities
of Christian effort in the field.

Of course you understand, if you make this
gift, it will be carried out under the supervision
of our property committee, after receiving the
sanction of the board, and I will superintend it
myself. We have a fine site for the building, on
one of the main thoroughfares of the town,
where it will be accessible to all classes and most
convenient for all phases of our work.

Upon his receipt of the above Dr. Coles
wrote to Dr. Stanton and to the Board of
Foreign Missions at Boston that he would
pay for the ground, the building and its
furnishings, and would like the work com-
menced and finished without any unnec-
essary delay — which the board gratefully
agreed to have done under the directing
care of the Rev. Dr. W. A. Stanton.

The church is given as a memorial to
Dr. and Mrs. Abraham Coles, father and
mother of the donor, and those of early
and later days who, like them, have con-
tributed to the success of the great mis-
sionary enterprises at home and in foreign
lands.

The beautiful parable of "The Good
Shepherd seeking his lost sheep," and
the song of the Shepherd King; "The
Lord Is My Shepherd. I Shall Not
Want," suggested the following inter-
esting story of a lost deer, written at
Deerhurst some years ago by Miss Coles
for children, which was published in
the children's column of one of our reli-
gious journals. It was copied into "The
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Writers," compiled by Mrs. Margaret Y.
Yardley, chairman of the committee on
literature, and editor of the scrap book,
for the World's Columbian Exhibition.
From a volume of this work, presented to
the New Jersey Historical Society Li-
brary, the story is taken, entitled "The
Deer and the Dog:"

Last Sunday morning the deer keeper went to
the deer park with food for a buck and a doe
with their beautiful fawn. As he reached the
gate an ugly looking dog lying near sprang up
and leaped over the fence into the park. The
poor frightened buck ran from the dog in great
distress; but instead of running to his kind
keeper for protection he thought he would save
himself, so giving a desperate leap through the
wire fence he escaped all torn and bruised and
bleeding to the woods. Our gentle doe and her
fawn were unharmed, for her keeper was close
by to deliver "her and her darling from the
power of the dog" and she trusted in him that
he would deliver her. Mr. Alexander Ritchie,
that dear old gentleman who so beautifully paints
pictures and engraves them, gave my father the
other day an original lovely picture representing
"Mercy" — as allegorically represented in "The
Pilgrims' Progress," by John Bunyan. She
stands knocking at a high gate over which are
the words: "Knock and it shall be opened unto
you." Mercy is represented as knocking very
loudly while the tears are running down her
cheeks. No wonder! Outside the gate, while
she is standing there, she hears a great ugly dog
barking fiercely, and as he is very close by she
fears he will tear her to pieces. She knows she
will be safe inside the gate; so she keeps on
knocking, knocking, knocking! When the gate
is opened and the kind gate keeper hears why
she was so frightened, he lovingly says to her:
"I will deliver my darling from the power of the
dog." That is what our Lord Jesus Christ will
say to you if you ask Him to save you from "the
dog." Satan is so called because he is like a furi-
ous and cruel dog. He is also compared in the
Bible to "a roaring lion going about seeking
whom he may devour." Only our Lord Jesus
Christ can save you from his power; but you are
safe if you can say "The Lord is my keeper," —
trusting yourself entirely to His care.

I have read that the Romans used to chain
dogs to their house doors over which they
wrote: "Beware of dogs." The Apostle Paul
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in his epistle or letter to the Phillipians wrote
the same words. The dogs he meant, I believe,
were such cruel wicked men as caused the death
of our dear Saviour: "Dogs have compassed me;
the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me;
they pierced my hands and my feet;" and such
men also as King Solomon warns us to shun:
"Enter not into the path of the wicked, go not
in the way of evil men, avoid it, pass not by it,
turn from it and pass away." The prophet Isai-
ah also tells us of other wicked men; and per-
haps the Apostle Paul was meaning these also:
"They are all dumb dogs. They cannot bark,
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea!
They arc greedy dogs which can never have
enough. These watchmen should have been like
faithful shepherds who protect the sheep and give
alarm when danger is near, but instead they were
like worthless curs, caring only for their own
comfort instead of being vigilant, trustworthy
watch dogs." I am so glad that none of these
dogs can ever enter in through the gates into
the City where reigns our Great King— The King
of Kings, The Lord of Lords— the Heavenly
Jerusalem, "for without are dogs," and here in
this world they are all about us; and they will
trouble us greatly and destroy us if we are not
under the constant protection of our Keeper —
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The deer keeper has gone in search of the
lost deer. To-day is Wednesday, and until this
morning he had not found out where the deer
had strayed. I am told that the poor creature
was hunted by dogs the whole of last night
and that he will surely be killed to-night if
not rescued, for he is now looking so worn out and
so bruised, and is so lame, that it would grieve
us to see the beautiful creature. While I write —
lo! I hear the voice of the keeper. He is re-
turning home; he is calling to me to come and
rejoice with him for he has found his deer which
was lost. Oh! how bright and happy is this deer
keeper : how tenderly, how lovingly he looks upon
this wounded deer, rejoicing more over him than
over all the other deer in the deer park who
went not astray. So does the Good Shepherd
go in search of His lost sheep in the wilderness
of this world. He will not suffer it to perish;
and when he finds it "all weary and worn and ready
to die," He will tenderly bring it back to the
green pastures and beside the still waters, saying
"Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep
which was lost."

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Presbyterian Hymnal, "Hymns of the Ages,"
in use among the Presbyterian churches of the
South and therein set to the tune of Eventide
and Troyte's Chant No. I :

Now lift we hymns of heartfelt praise to Thee
Our King, Redeemer, Saviour, Brother, Friend;

And when Thy face, we in Thy likeness see,
Our Adoration Song shall never cease.

Then shall we sing when with our God we reign,
Seeing Thee always in most holy ways,

Worthy the Lamb who once for us was slain,
That Song, forever new, of ceaseless praise.

While here we tarry in this world of need,

Seeking Thy lost ones who in darkness roam.

Thy little flock, Good Shepherd, gently lead
And bear Thy lambs in safety to Thy Home.

We copy from the Newark (New Jer-
sey) "Sunday Call," Thanksgiving num-
ber, February, 1916, the following inter-
esting statement:

The bronze historical group at the northern
end of Lincoln Park, Newark, was dedicated on
Thanksgiving Day twenty-one years ago. A
complete list of the names of all the children in
the city's public schools was placed in one of the
metal boxes in the marble pedestal. There were
thirty thousand names. If a list were attempted
to-day it would include over sixty thousand
names. The bronze was presented to the city
by Dr. Jonathan Ackerman Coles as a tribute to
the memory of his father, Dr. Abraham Coles.

It depicts a white mother winning back the
love of her daughter who was made a captive by
the Indians when a child. The child, grown to
womanhood, had wed a chief, and when recog-
nized by her mother, was indifferent to her until
the latter sang a song the younger woman had
not heard since childhood. The old song in-
stantly brought back the long distant past and
thus the young woman united to her love for
her Indian husband that of love for her mother.
The bronze has a special appeal to school chil-
dren and the story behind the group has often
been told them during the twenty-one years it
has been in Lincoln Park.

Twelve beautiful stained glass windows
illustrating the life and teachings of our
Lord, designated as "The Ackerman Me-
morial Windows" in The First Reformed
Dutch Church, New Brunswick, New Jer-
sey, and many valuable memorial gifts

elsewhere, bear witness to the affectionate
regard entertained for and manifested by
Dr. and Miss Coles for their maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan
Combs Ackerman and their family — with
whom the early days of happy childhood
were passed in the Ackerman Homestead,
still standing on the corner of George and
Bayard streets, New Brunswick, New
Jersey.

One of these windows marks the site
of the large square Ackerman pew ; and
was given by Dr. Coles in memory of his
grandparents, Jonathan Combs Acker-
man and his wife, Maria (Smith) Acker-
man. The .first of the series was given
by Miss Coles in remembrance of the
founder of the Ackerman family in
America, Davit Ackerman and his wife,
Lisbet (de Villiers) Ackerman, both of
North Brabrant, Holland, from which
place they sailed with their six children
in 1662. They landed in New Amster-
dam, where they settled, and where they
united, in the following year, with the
Reformed Dutch Church in America.

In memory of his grandfather, after
whom he was named, Dr. Coles has given
to the West China Union University at
Chengtu, China, a most attractive build-
ing. The materials used are brick and
tiles. It is of Chinese architecture and
was erected by an experienced architect,
under the plans designed by the Presi-
dent of the University, the Rev. Joseph
Beech, D. D. The interior is complete
in its requirements as a Christian home
and has a chapel for religious services.
The building accommodates seventy-five
students.

Yuan Shih-Kai, the President of China,
when the story of the West China Union
University was told to him, said, "I wish
to help." The next day he sent to the
President of the University, Joseph Beech,
D. D., a letter in which he wrote, "I

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do, which be gracious enough to re- John Evans, subject of this sketch, sou

enclose my endorsement and check for of John and Ann (Crombie) Evans, was
ceive. 1 he whole world is now being born in Edinburgh, Scotland, January 3,
unified. In learning and thought we are 1866, and died at his home in Paferson,
daily hastening toward perfect agree-
ment. The establishment now of the
University is only the creating of a
first channel of communication. (Signed)
Yuan Shih-Kai."
The official endorsement of the Univer-

Xew Jersey, December 6, 191 1. He ac-
quired his education in the public schools
of 1'aterson, which he attended until he
was sixteen years of age, at which time
he entered upon his apprenticeship with
the Cooke Locomotive Company to learn
-it\ by I lu-Ching I, the Governor-General the machinist's trade. Upon the expira-

of Szechuan, of which province Chengtu
is the capital city, was also received by
I )r. Beech. The Governor-General en-
closed his check for $3,000, stating that
"Education is of fundamental importance
to the Xation."

EVANS, John,

Manufacturer, Inventor.

The men of deeds are the men who ex-
cite the admiration of the world, and when
a man rises to a position of prominence,
whether it be in the business world or in
private life, he merits and receives the
esteem and respect of all by reason of
the sterling qualities he must undoubt-
edly possess. It is of such a man that
this review treats in the person of the
late John Evans, of Paterson, Xew Jer-
sey. While he was just at the commence-
ment of the prime of life, he had attained
a position of eminence in his industry,
and his reputation as a locomotive builder
was constantly growing. Favored by
nature with innate ability for this line of
work, his talent in this direction was
fostered and expanded by constant asso-
ciation with kindred minds, and his in-
ventive genius increased. "His father,
John Evans, was a Scotchman, who came
to this country in 1868, and followed his
calling as a boot maker in Paterson, New
Jersey. He married Ann Crombie, also
a native of Scotland, where they were
married.

tion of his apprenticeship he remained
with this company, and rapidly rose from
one position of responsibility to another,
by reason of his intelligent, careful and
faithful discharge of the duties entrusted
to him. At the unusually early age of
twenty-five years he had risen to the im-
portant position of superintendent of the
entire plant. He was in every sense of
the words the right man in the right
place. He made himself master of every
detail of his industry, and being of an
inventive turn of mind, he made many
valuable improvements upon various parts
of the locomotives which he assisted in
building, and many of these are still in
use at the present day. So expert was
he considered in all branches of the busi-
ness with which he was associated, that
he was sent by the company to superin-
tend the erection of locomotives in vari-
ous parts of the world, and in this con-
nection visited Japan, England and sev-
eral other countries. He had a natural
aptitude for the successful handling of
large bodies of men. and being imbued
with a strict sense of justice, a quality he
displayed greatly to the benefit of the men
under him, they were devoted to him, and
he was thus enabled to accomplish a vast
amount of work without unnecessary fric-
tion. Indeed, it is not too much to say
that as a practical builder of locomotives
he was one of the skillful men in the
world. At the time of his death he had
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tive Company tor the long period of twen-
ty-seven years, and had gained the good
will and esteem of all with whom he had
been associated.

In political matters he gave his con-
sistent support to the Republican party,
but was never an aspirant to public office.
He was a member of the Market Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, a member
of the board of trustees of that institu-
tion, and was secretary of the Sunday
school at a time when there was an at-
tendance of five hundred pupils. He was
of a quiet and retiring disposition, kindly
and thoughful, and devoted to his home
and church. His last pastor says of him:

Mr. Evans was one of the most loyal and
faithful church members I have ever known.
Though a very busy man, carrying heavy respon-
sibilities, he was never too busy nor too tired to
undertake work for the church. He did not
neglect his business, but cheerfully drew upon
his own time and strength for God's work.
After an arduous day he would often meet in
church boards or committees till the middle of
the night, but I never once heard him complain
of fatigue. The call of the church seemed to
nerve him with new strength and put him at his
best. Yet he never was an ambitious man. He
sought no position, and aspired to no place but
loyally and modestly responded to every demand
which the church made upon him. Such sweet
and glorious spirits are all too rare, and always
have been. He was a man of a thousand — nay,
of ten thousand.

Mr. Evans married Mary Elizabeth
Beaumont, a daughter of John and Mary
(Parker) Beaumont, of Paterson, New
Jersey, who were of Huguenot extraction,
and came to this country from England ;
both are now deceased. The children of
Mr. and Mrs. Evans: Russell Beau-
mont, John Clifford and Marian Eliza-
beth. Mrs. Evans is still living at No.
478 Park avenue, Paterson, and she and
her family attend the Wesley Methodist
Episcopal Church.

JACKSON, James,

Financier, Man of Affairs.

The family of James Jackson, the sub-
ject of this narrative, came originally
from Ireland, in the early part of the
nineteenth century, but has become thor-
oughly incorporated in the civic life of
this country, giving substantial aid to the
State and city in which they settled.
James Jackson, the American progenitor
of the family, was born in Sligo, Ireland,
came to America, and married Mary Caro-
line Burnett, of Springfield, New Jersey.
He was a prominent and influential citi-
zen of Paterson, New Jersey, for many
years, being thoroughly interested in the
industrial and financial prosperity of that
city, and assisting much in its growth in
the position of president of the New Jer-
sey Locomotive and Machine Company,
and as the controlling power and presi-
dent of the Passaic Count)' Bank, now
styled Second National Bank of Paterson.

James Jackson, son of James and Mary
Caroline (Burnett) Jackson, was born in
1841, at Paterson, New Jersey, and died
March 14, 1903, in the same city. After
attending the public schools of his native
city he spent two years in the State
Law School, at Poughkeepsie, New York.
Finding, however, that his natural bent
was toward business rather than the law,
he returned to Paterson and assisted his
father in his business affairs until the
company, of which his father was presi-
dent, changed hands. After the sale of
that industry he was employed for sev-
eral years in various manufacturing es-
tablishments, among them the Passaic
Rolling Mill Company and the Idaho Iron
Company of Paterson, in the last named
holding the position of treasurer. Leav-
ing that company, he found employment
in the Passaic County Bank, an institu-
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father, and in that place filled the posi-
tions of bookkeeper, teller and cashier.
The bank was first organized under State
laws in 1852; in 1865 it passed into the
hands of Mr. Jackson's father, who be-
came its president and owned most of its
stock until his death. After his death the
capital of the bank was increased, and by
special act of Congress in 1874 the name
of the institution was changed to the Sec-
ond National Bank of Paterson, with Ben-
jamin Buckley as president, and James
Jackson as first cashier. Mr. Buckley re-
signed in i88i,and Mr. Jackson succeeded
him and held the office until his death.
Beside his financial interests, Mr. Jack-
son was president of the Gould-Mersercau
Company of New York, one of the lead-
ing upholstery and hardware houses of
the country, and was prominently identi-
fied with manufacturing and other enter-
prises in Paterson. Through his wide
and varied experiences in financial and
commercial affairs, he was eminently
fitted for the responsible position he held
so long and ably, and it was a fact to be
fong remembered and commented on that
while Mr. Jackson was at the helm, the
business public felt itself in perfect safety
because of his untarnished integrity and
fine, discerning judgment in all financial
matters.

In politics Mr. Jackson was a lifelong
Republican. On several occasions he was
selected by the courts to take charge of
estates, and his careful and discriminat-
ing judgment proved in every instance
that he was a successful administrator.
He was a member of the Hamilton Club
of Paterson, the Lawyers' Club of New-
York, and in his younger days belonged
to the H. M. A. Association, an athletic
and boat club composed of the young men
of Paterson. 'While it was well known
that Mr. Jackson was of a retiring and
domestic temperament, few knew

pleasure he had in the home studies which
he pursued. He was particularly fond of
the sciences, devoting much attention to
mathematics and astronomy. He was
well versed in literature, being thoroughly
acquainted with the works of the best
authors, but his greatest delight was the
Bible, and to its study he gave much time,
and was generally recognized as a Bibli-
cal student excelled by few theologians.
Mr. Jackson was averse to any display of
his attainments, but the friends who were
able to draw from him his knowledge,
were astonished and well repaid by the
intellectual feast he could spread to those
who could appreciate his learning.

On April 25. 1S83. in New York City,
Mr. Jackson married Amelia, daughter of
Edwin Haigbt and Maria Louise (Hart)
Mabbett, of Dutchess county, New York.
The only child of Mr. and Mrs. James
Jackson is Gerald Breck.

WISTAR, Caspar,

Pioneer Glass Manufacturer.

The first glass works to be established
in New Jersey were the plant erected
about 1739 near Allowaystown, Salem
county, by Caspar Wistar. A deed of
agreement dated December 7, 1738. said
to be still in existence, shows that Wis-
tar brought these four glassmakers from
Rotterdam : Simon Kreismeir, Caspar
Halter, John Martin Halter and Johan
William Wenrzell.

The following letter, printed in the
New Jersey Archives, volume vi., was
sent. July 31, 1740, by Charles Carkesse,
secretary at London of the Commission-
ers of the Customs, to Thomas Hill, Esq.,
of London, secretary to the Lords Com-
missioners for Trade and Plantations :

Sir, Mr. William Frazor, Collector of the Cus-
toms at Salem in West Jersey having informed
hat the Commissioners, that there has been lately

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effected a Glass work within Eight miles of that
Port by one Casper Wester a Palatine, and is
brought to perfection so as to make Glass : I am
directed to give you an account thereof for the
information of the Lords of Trade.

Caspar Wistar died at his home in
Philadelphia in 1752, but his son Richard
continued to make glass at Alloways-
town until the Revolutionary War. Rich-
ard died in 1781.

A letter from Governor Jonathan Bel-
cher, written at Elizabeth Town, August
24. 1752, to Colonel Alford, of Boston,
contains some interesting information
about Wistar and the manufacture of
glass in New Jersey. He wrote :

I have begun to make Inquiry about the Glass
Works in this Province which are 130 miles from
this Town & as I know no proper person near
them capable of getting the Information you
desire I have hardly a lean hope of rendering
you any Service is that matter in which the Un-
dertakers are very close & Secret.

I was Acquainted with one Caspar a German
who lived at Phila and was the first and principal
Undertaker of the Glass Works in this Province,
and with whom I discours'd particularly about
them (5 years ago) and he complain'd also that
they cou'd not make their glass so Clear and
strong for want of Help, their Works being near
two hundred miles from any Quantity of it.

This Caspar is lately dead and from a very-
poor man rais'd and left a Fortune of 20. or
30.ooo£ Str. I have had from others Engag'd
in the Works the same Complaint of want of
proper Materials for the Mettle and for the Fur-
nace.

In 1768 Governor William Franklin re-
fers to Wistar's works as having been
established some twenty years and as
making "Bottles and a very coarse Green
Glass for Windows, used only in some of
the Houses of the poorer sort of People."

The second glass works to be estab-
lished in New Jersey were located at the
present Glassboro. dishing and Shep-
pard in their "History of Gloucester
County" make the following reference to
that plant:

The pioneer glass works at what is now Glass-
boro were erected in 1775 by Jacob. Solomon,
John,, Christian, Adam, Francis and Philip Stan-
ger, seven brothers, who had been working at
Wistar's glass works on Alloways Creek, in
Salem county. They brought with them an enly
sister, Sophia.

A piece of land was purchased by the Stangers
from Archibald Moffet, the timber was taken off,
the necessary buildings were erected, and in the
fall of the same year they made their first melt.
A bottle now in the possession of a descendant of
Philip is said to be the first bottle blown. Wis-
tar's works were abandoned about this time, and
a number of the employes found w-ork at the new-
factory in Gloucester county.

The Stangers continued the business for about
five years, when they were compelled to make an
assignment on account of the depreciation in the
value of continental money. The unfortunate
originators of the glass works were sent to a
debtor's prison at Gloucester, the then seat of
justice of Gloucester county. — J. F. F.

BEASLEY, Chief Justice Mercer,

Eminent Jurist.

In presenting to the public sketches of
the lives of our prominent citizens, we
have endeavored to choose those men
who, by their superior attainments and
achievements in some particular walk of
life, have risen to heights above their fel-
lows, and whose characteristics and in-
dividuality have raised them above the
ordinary run of mortals. In every walk
of life it is the few and not the many
who rise to eminence, and it is these
few who give tone and character to
our society, and shape the destiny of
the communities in which they reside.
More men rise to eminence at the bar
than in any other profession; the ma-
jority of our great orators and statesmen
come from the forum, as it is the most
general school for the training of genius
or talent, and humanity is indebted to
the genial study of the law and the prac-
tice of our courts for the development of
some of the greatest minds the world has
ever produced. Certainly no State has

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more reason to feel proud of her bench
and bar than New Jersey. The record
of her lawyers and judges since the earli-
est period of her history is replete with
the works of men who were giants in in-
tellect. A foremost place in the ranks of
these illustrious men must be accorded
to the late Chief Justice Mercer Beasley.
He was a son of the Rev. Frederick Beas-
ley, rector of St. Michael's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Trenton, provost of
the University of Pennsylvania, and of
his wife, Maria (Williamson) Beasley.

Chief Justice Mercer Beasley was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 27,
181 5, and died at Trenton, New Jersey,
February 19. 1897. For a time he was a
student at Flizabethtown Academy, then
was prepared for entrance to college by
his gifted father, and matriculated at
Princeton College. After one year's study
at that institution, he left and continued
his studies at Trenton until 1834, after
which he took up the study of law in the
office of Samuel L. Southard, at that time
United States Senator, and also engaged
in legal practice in New Jersey. In Sep-
tember, 1838, Mr. Beasley was admitted
to the bar. and in February. 1842, he was
admitted as a counsellor.

For a period of ten years following his
admission to the bar, Mr. Beasley con-
fined his study and practice of the law to
the trial of cases in the justices' courts,
ignoring office practice as a rule, and con-
ferring with his clients as he happened to
meet them on the streets, where they had
acquired the habit of lying in wait for
him. Any spare time during the day was
spent in the library, and his evenings
were passed at his office. He gradually
acquired a fine law library during these
year?, and also frequently consulted the
State Library, to which he had free ac-
'cess. At this time his office was at No.
143 East State street, and later he erected

the house on East State street which ad-
joined his office, and this was his resi-
dence during the remainder of his life.
A strong supporter of Whig principles,
he was at this time a candidate for the
mayoralty and for the Assembly, but was
defeated. He was fond of both outdoor
and indoor sports and excelled in both,
being an especially good marksman on the
wing.

His first appearance as a lawyer in the
Supreme Court was in October, 1849, an<^
he won his case. From that time he was
engaged in many important cases of liti-
gation, which are matters of historical
record. When the Whig party had passed
away. Mr. Beasley gave his support to
the 1 democratic party, being an active
supporter of its principles. In 1834 he
was appointed city solicitor of Trenton,
New Jersey : was elected a member of
the common council of that city in 1S50;
and in 1851 was the Whig nominee for
the office of mayor, but was defeated, as
above mentioned. On March 8, 1864, he
was appointed chief justice of the Su-
preme Court, by Judge Parker, to succeed
Edward W. Whelpley, was reappointed
again and again, holding the office until
bis death. In his administration of the
business of this important office, Judge
Beasley promoted promptness and effi-
ciency on the bench and at the bar, in-
sisting upon the observance of the rules
of practice, having always in mind the
doing of justice in the particular case.
He was courteous to counsel, and patient
even with the dullest and most exasperat-
ing, maintaining the dignity of the pro-
ceedings and deference to the court. In
hearing arguments he was quick to grasp
the essentials of the case, and by pene-
trating questions brought counsel to the
point to which the argument should be
directed. In presiding over trials at the
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the Chief Justice was strong and patient,
dignified and courteous. His charges to
the jury were simple and clear and di-
rectly to the point, and these were free
from the unusual words and the subtlety
of reasoning which are found in some of
his written opinions. He retained his
powers and kept on with his work to the
end of his long life, and his last opinion
in the Supreme Court was announced by
his associates on the day before his death.
He was elected a member of the Society
of the Cincinnati, February 22, 1895, and
a fine portrait of him, by J. W. Alexander,
hangs in the Supreme Court room at
Trenton, New Jersey.

Judge Beasley married (first) Frances
Higbee, daughter of Charles Higbee, and
(second) October 16, 1854, Catherine Ann
Haven, daughter of Charles Chauncey
and Catharine Matilda (Jeffries) Haven,
both marriages taking place at Trenton.
By the first marriage he had children:
Charlotte Higbee, who married the late
Edward T. Green, judge of the United
States District Court; Mercer, Jr., de-
ceased, a member of the bar, and pros-
ecutor of the pleas of Mercer county, New
Jersey ; Frances, who married William S.
Gummere, present Chief Justice of New
Jersey. By the second marriage there
was one child : Chauncy Haven, of whom
forward.

For spontaneous appreciations of the
character and judicial qualities of Chief
Justice Beasley by those who knew him
best, we refer to the words spoken by his
associates on the bench and leading mem-
bers of the bar at the opening of the Su-
preme Court on the day of his death. A
few extracts from these remarks are here
given :

Justice Depue said:

To intellectual and legal attainments of the
highest order, he added those other qualities
without which no judge can be great; character

in its broadest sense, industry, independence,
courage, and a high sense of the responsibilities
of his office. In all these qualities, Chief Justice
Beasley was distinguished to an eminent degree.

Justice Van Syckel said :

His familiarity with the common law, his accu-
rate perception of the true boundary of equity
jurisdiction, and his discrimination in the appli-
cation of legal principles, were his rarest attain-
ments, with perhaps, the single exception of his
unequalled knowledge of the science of special
pleading and his skill in that much neglected art.
* * * He was a steadfast and devoted friend,
strongly attracted by the high qualities of others,
which constituted the beauty and strength of his
own character. He treated his associates with
marked deference, winning their regard by his
manner and their admiration and respect by his
great learning and the maturity of his views upon
every subject under discussion.

Mr. Cortlandt Parker said:

He was always in fact, I think. Chief Justice.
He recognized the duties of that position and
filled them. He guarded sedulously pleading
and practice. He was not disposed to techni-
cality, but he was nevertheless mindful of its im-
portance to exact justice, and justice in the par-
ticular case was his great end and aim. He had
a natural and implacable sense of right, but
there has never been a judge on our bench, per-
haps, who was so cold and steel-like in his logic
and who followed so unswervingly where it led.
In my own judgment, this was the point of dan-
ger with him. His decisions are models of per-
spicuity and terseness and they are always to
the point.

BEASLEY, Chauncy Haven,

Lawyer, Jurist.

Chauncy Haven Beasley, only son of
Chief Justice Mercer Beasley and his sec-
ond wife, Catherine Ann (Haven) Beasley,
was born in Trenton, New Jersey, July 4,
1857, and died in South Orange, New
Jersey, September 4, 1913.

He acquired an excellent preparatory
education as a student of Trenton Acade-
my and the State Model Academy, then

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matriculated in Princeton University,
graduating therefrom in the class of 1880.
During his course there he was leader of
the College Glee Club, one of the founders
of the Ivy Club and a member of Zeta
Psi fraternity. He studied law under the
excellent preceptorship of his father, also
in the office of J. G. Shipman, of Bel-
videre, New Jersey, and was admitted to
the bar in 1883. He served as attorney
for the board of freeholders of Warren
county, in 1883, and as counsellor in 1886.
He was engaged in the active practice of
his profession in Belvidere until 1888,
when he was appointed judge of the Dis-
trict Court in Trenton, serving in that ca-
pacity until 1892, after which he returned
to his former vocation, establishing an
office in the city of Trenton, continuing
until 1900, in which year he formed a
partnership with the present Chancellor
Walker in Trenton. In 1904 he was em-
ployed as counsel for the New Jersey
Street Railway Company, afterwards
merged into the Public Service Corpora-
tion of New Jersey, from which he re-
signed in 191 1, and from that time until
his death, in 1913, he gave his attention
to his chosen profession, with offices in
Newark. His excellent character, scholar-
ly attainments and marked ability in his
profession commanded the respect and
admiration of the bench and bar. He
gave his political allegiance to the Demo-
cratic party. He was nominated for
Congress in the year 1884, after a close
campaign, but was defeated by a small
margin. He was appointed aide on Gov-
ernor Abbott's staff, with the rank of
major, thus affiliating himself with the
Seventh Regiment, New Jersey National
Guard. During his residence in Trenton.
Judge Beasley was a member of Trinity
Episcopal and Christ churches, and dur-
ing his residence in South Orange was
connected with the Church of the Holv

Communion. He was a member of Ashlar
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in
Trenton, Sons of the Revolution, and the
Trenton Golf Club.

Judge Beasley married in Trenton, New
Jersey, January 10, 1880, Jessie Fleming,
born in Rye, New York, April 14, 1863,
daughter of Frederick Nichols and Ellen
Douglas (Haven) Fleming, of New York.
Children : Catherine Ann, born Novem-
ber 23, 1880; Charles Fenton Mercer, July
8, 1882; John Jeffries, August 18, 1884;
Emilie Haven, April 18, 1887; Mary
Stockton, November 19, 1889 ; and
Chauncy Haven, Jr., May 27, 1893.

MOCKRIDGE, Oscar Bromley,

Business Man, Financier.

Oscar Bromley Mockridge, who was for
many years prominent in the hardware
trade of Newark, New Jersey, and was
closely identified with the banking inter-
ests of that city, was born in Newark,
June 10, 1844, a son of Abraham and
Sarah Emmons (Ward) Mockridge, and
came of an old and honored New Jersey
family. His father, who was born in
March, 1802, and died in 1873, was a
member of the firm of Mockridge &
Francis, hardware dealers of Newark, an
enterprise established in 1835.

Oscar Bromley Mockridge received his
education in the public schools of his na-
tive city, Nathan Hedges' private school,
and the Wesleyan Institute, forerunner
of the Newark Academy. In 1861 he left
school and entered the hardware business
of Mockridge & Francis, applied himself
to the duties assigned him and acquired
a thoroughly practical knowledge of the
hardware business, a calling for which
he was peculiarly adapted, and in which
he was destined to win high distinction
as one of its ablest and most successful
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firm in 1868, the style of the firm being
changed at that time to Mockridge & Son,
under which name it was subsequently
carried on, Mr. Mockridge remaining
identified with the enterprise until 1899,
the business at that time being the oldest
continuously conducted undertaking of
its kind in the city of Newark. As a man
of affairs Mr. Mockridge was thoroughly
equipped. His judgment was sound even
as a young man, and his foresight keen
and unerring. His methods were those
of the old school, honest and fair, and he
conducted his business in a progressive
and energetic manner that gained for the
house a wide prestige and an enviable
repute.

From the founding of the Security
Savings Bank of Newark, in 1884, Mr.
Mockridge served as treasurer until 1914,
when he became vice-president of the
same, in which capacity he was serving
at the time of his death. This institution
is notable as one of the largest savings
banks of the city. As treasurer and vice-
president of the institution in question,
Mr. Mockridge performed his functions
with an ability that was most pronounced,
and his practical knowledge of banking
stood him in good stead in this connec-
tion. He strengthened the enterprise in
every direction, and contributed in no
small degree to the building up of its
constantly increasing business. Until
three weeks prior to his death, he was
regularly at his desk in the Security bank-
ing rooms. He was associated with the
banking interests of Newark for more
than thirty years, and served as a director
of the Manufacturers' National Bank of
Newark, and of the Firemen's Insurance
Company.

Mr. Mockridge never took an active
part in politics, neither seeking: nor hold-
ing public office, and he preferred to con-
centrate all his efforts upon his personal

affairs. At the same time, he was public-
spirited to a notable degree, and was will-
ing at all times to unite in any movement
calculated to advance the common good
or promote the material welfare of the
community at large. He was a member
of the board of directors of the Newark
Young Men's Christian Association, on
which he served from 1905 until his death,
and was president of the Children's Aid
Society, associations in which he took an
active interest. He was one of the origi-
nal members of the North End Club, of
Newark, a member of the Up-Town Club,
and a popular man in these associations.
Socially Mr. Mockridge was as successful
as in the business world. Both in busi-
ness and in private life, his wise and prac-
tical counsel was sought by many and
applied with success.

Mr. Mockridge married, August 19,
1873, Carolina Virginia Tichenor, of
Newark, and they had one son, Dr. Oscar
A. Mockridge, who has for a number of
years been a successful physician and
surgeon. Mrs. Mockridge died July 16,
1916. and at the time of Mr. Mockridge's
death, March 11, 1917, he was residing
with his son. His funeral services were
conducted by the Rev. Alden S. Bennett,
minister in charge of Trinity Episcopal
Church, of which Mr. Mockridge was a
vestryman. The interment was in Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery. Resolutions of re-
gret were passed by the board of man-
agers of the Security Savings Bank and
by the board of directors of the Young
Men's Christian Association.

DESHLER, Charles D.,

Journalist, Antiquarian, Author.

The late Charles Dunham Deshler, of
New Brunswick, New Jersey, was of the
sixth generation of the Deshler family
and of the eisrhth generation of the Dun-

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ham family in America, his ancestral lines
being as follows :

(I) Johann Deshler, born in Germany,
came to America in 1730. (II) Adam
Deshler, lived near Allentown, Pennsyl-
vania, purchased, in 1742, from Frederick
Newhard, two hundred and three and
one-half acres, on which he built in 1760
the stone dwelling called Fort Deshler
(still standing) ; furnished the provincial
troops with supplies in the French and

Indian war ; married Apollonia .

(Ill) David Deshler, born at Egypt,
Pennsylvania, 1733. died at Bienj's Bridge,
Pennsylvania, December, 1796: built in
Germantown. i//2-~^, the famous dwell-
ing (afterward the residence of the Mor-
ris family) known as the Morris-Deshler
house, which at one time was the head-
quarters of the British General Howe, and
in [793, during the yellow fever scourge,
was occupied by President Washington
as the executive mansion ; married Sus-
anna . (IV) John Adam Deshler,

born 1766, died 1820; married Deborah
Wagener. (V) George Wagener Deshler,
born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Sep-
tember 17, 1793. died 1836; lived in Easton,
Pennsylvania : prothonotary of Northamp-
ton county, Pennsylvania ; editor for some
time of the Belvidere (New Jersey)
"Apollo;" married. May 4, 1818, Cath-
arine Lawson Dunham. (VI) Charles
Dunham Deshler, see forward.

(I) Deacon John Dunham, born in
England in 1589, came to New England
in the ship "James" in 1630, and died in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1669; mar-
ried Abigail . (II) Benajah Dun-
ham, born 1640, in Plymouth, Massachu-
setts, died December 24, 16S0, in Piscata-
way. New Jersey; married, October 25,
1660, Elizabeth Tilson. (Ill) Rev. Ed-
mund Dunham, born in Piscataway town-
ship, Middlesex county, New Jersey, July
25, 1661, died March 7, 1734; married,

July 15, 1681, Mary Bonham (born Octo-
ber 4, 1661, died 1742). (IV) Rev. Jona-
than Dunham, of Piscataway, born Au-
gust 16, 1694, died March 10, 1777; mar-
ried August 15, 1714, Jane Pyatt. (V)
Colonel Azariah Dunham, born in Pis-
cataway, New Jersey, 1719, died January
22, 17110; noted land surveyor; active in
the Revolutionary War, being a member
of the committee of correspondence ; mar-
ried Mary Ford, of Morristown, who was
born September 22, 1734, in the old Ford
house at that place, afterward Washing-
ton's headquarters. (VI) Dr. Jacob Dun-
ham, of New Brunswick, born September
30, 1767, died August 23. 1832; married
Elizabeth Lawson. (VII) Catharine Law-
son Dunham, born July 14, 1791, died
March 26, 1875; married, May 4, 1818,
George Wagener Deshler. (VIII) Charles
Dunham Deshler.

(VI) Charles Dunham Deshler, eldest
child and only son of George Wagener
and Catharine Lawson (Dunham) Desh-
ler, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania,
March 1, 1819. When about four years
old he was sent to New Brunswick, New
Jersey, to make his home with his grand-
father, Dr. Jacob Dunham, who then re-
sided on Peace street at the foot of Church,
in a house which is still standing, though
remodeled. He was educated in private
schools and at the Rutgers Preparatory
School, where he was graduated in 1832
at the age of thirteen. After his grand-
father's death in the latter year, he was
apprenticed as clerk to Richard S. Mc-
Donald in the drug business in New
Brunswick. Succeeding Mr. McDonald,
he conducted the business under the firm
styles of Deshler & Carter, Deshler &
Boggs, and finally C. D. Deshler. Dur-
ing this period he took an active and
prominent part in organizing the New
Brunswick gas works, savings institution,
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Brunswick public school system, of which
he has always been regarded as the
founder.

Moving to Jersey City, Mr. Deshler be-
came editor of the "American Standard,"
resigning that position to accept the edi-
torship of the Newark "Daily Adver-
tiser," and conducted these papers with
marked ability during a portion of the
Civil War. Appointed by Governor Joel
Parker commissioner for the sick and
wounded Jersey troops, he spent consider-
able time in the South caring for the
wants and interests of the New Jersey
and other troops in the various hospitals.
In 1865 he went to the oil regions of Penn-
sylvania, occupying the position of treas-
urer of the Farmers' railroad, which ran
from Petroleum Center to Oil City. He
resigned that place to become secretary
of the International Life Insurance Com-
pany of Jersey City, and later was en-
gaged in business interests and literary
work in New York City, where he was at
various times editor of the "Christian In-
telligencer," secretary of the United
States Dairy Company, secretary of the
Harney Peak Tin Mining, Milling and
Manufacturing Company and book re-
viewer for the publishing house of Harper
Brothers.

Reestablishing his residence in New
Brunswick, Mr. Deshler was until his
death a prominent and highly esteemed
citizen of that community. He was lay
judge of the Middlesex county court of
common pleas, postmaster of New Bruns-
wick (appointed by President Cleveland),
and agent for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. For many years he was ves-
tryman of Christ (Episcopal) Church.
Throughout his very long life he was
strongly interested in public affairs, and
he was associated on intimate terms with
many of the most distinguished political
leaders. Originally an ardent Whig (his

first vote being cast for Harrison and
Tyler in 1840), he later became a mem-
ber of the so-called Know Nothing party,
and finally of the Democratic organiza-
tion. By appointment from Governor
McClellan he served as one of the com-
missioners for the Blind and Feeble-mind-
ed, having charge of the erection of build-
ings, etc. At the centennial of the New
Jersey State Legislature he delivered, by
the invitation of that body, one of the
addresses. A man of accomplished liter-
ary ability, for a portion of his life (as we
have seen) a professional writer and edi-
tor, and at all times occupied more or less
with literary studies and composition, no
account of his career would be adequate
without a somewhat particular allusion
to this phase of it. His reading was most
extensive, his tastes inclining especially
to the study of English literature, of
which he had a scholarly knowledge, and
upon which he wrote and published valu-
able critical essays and other contribu-
tions. He was the author of "Selections
from the Poetical Works of Geoffry Chau-
cer" (Putnam, 1848) and "Afternoons
with the Poets" (Harper, 1879). He also
devoted much attention to historical re-
searches, and in this connection published
many sketches and addresses. The George
W. Deshler Memorial Library of the New
Brunswick high school was given by him
in memory of a son. Mr. Deshler died at
his residence in New Brunswick, May 10,
1909, in his ninety-first year.

He married, May 30, 1841, Mary Moore
Holcombe, born October 10. 1824, in New
Brunswick, died September 7, 1893,
daughter of Theophilus Moore and Cath-
erine Neilson (Farmer) Holcombe. The
Holcombes in this line were an older
Quaker family, originally of Lambert-
ville, New Jersey. Children: 1. Edward
Boggs. 2. George Wagener, graduate of
West Point Military Academy, and after-

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ward first lieutenant of Company A, First
Artillery, United States Army; died of
yellow fever at Fort Barrancas, Florida,
July 28, 1875. 3. Monroe Holcombe (de-
ceased). 4. James. 5. Kate. 6. Theophi-
lus Holcombe (deceased). 7. Mary Hol-
combe. 8. Elizabeth Dunham (deceased).
9. Charles. 10. Frederick. II. Edith.

STRYCKER, Gen. William S.,

Soldier, Historian.

The Strycker family is of most remote
antiquity. Proof has been brought from
Holland of the family having remained on
the same estates near The Hague and near
Rotterdam for full eight hundred years
prior to the coming of the first member
to this country in 1652. The following
facts, viz. : the ducal coronet on the crest
and the family being traced far back to
the latter part of the eighth century,
prove that the progenitors were among
the great military chieftains of the Neth-
erlands who were created dukes, counts
and barons by Charles the Bald, in order
to bring some form of government out of
the chaos of those times long before the
advent of the Dutch Republic. Many
legends are told of this powerful family
in those warlike days — one particularly
accounting for the three boars' heads
upon the shield.

In 1643 the States General of the Neth-
erlands offered a grant of land in New
Amsterdam to Jan and Jacobus Strycker
provided that they brought out, at their
own expense, twelve other families from
Holland. This grant, it does not appear,
they accepted until eight years afterward,
when they established the American
branch of the family in and near New
Amsterdam,. The old Strycker mansion
at Fifty-second street and the Hudson
river is the last of the old manor houses
of New York City. There were few

offices which these able men did not fill
at different times. Jacobus was a great
burgher of New Amsterdam in 1653-55-
57-58-60, also one of Peter Stuyvesant's
council.

Jan Strycker, born in Holland, 1614,
reached New Amsterdam from Rouen
with his wife, two sons and four daugh-
ters, 1652, leaving behind him all the
privileges and rights which might be his
by descent in the old world. He was a
man of ability and education, for his sub-
sequent history proves him to be promi-
nent in the civil and religious community
in which he cast his lot. His first wife
was Lambertje Seubering. After her
death he married Swantje Jans, widow of
Cornelis Potter, of Brooklyn. The second
wife died in 1686. In March, 1687, he
married a third time, Teuntje Teunis, of
Flatbush.

Jan Strycker remained in New Amster-
dam a little over a year, and in the year
1654 he took the lead in founding a Dutch
colony on Long Island at what was called
Midwout; it was also called Middle-
woods. The modern name is Flatbush.
On the nth of December, 1653, while
still in New Amsterdam, Jan Strycker
joined with others in a petition of the
Commonality of the New Netherlands
and a remonstrance against the conduct
of Director Stuyvesant. The petition re-
cited that "they apprehended the estab-
lishment of an arbitrary government over
them ; that it was contrary to the genuine
principles of well regulated governments
that one or more men should arrogate to
themselves the exclusive power to dis-
pose at will of the life and property of
any individual ; that it was odious to
every freeborn man, principally to those
whom God has placed in a free State of
newly settled lands. We humbly sub-
mit that 'tis one of our privileges that
our consent, or that of our representa-

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tives, is necessarily required in the enact-
ment of laws and orders." It is remark-
able that at this early day this indictment
was drawn up, this "bill of rights" was
published. But these men came from the
blood of the hardy Northmen and im-
bibed with the free air of America the de-
termination to be truly free themselves
In the year 1654 Jan Strycker was se-
lected as the chief magistrate of Midwout,
and this office he held most of the time for
twenty years. The last time we find the
notice of his election was at the council
of war holden in Fort William Hendrick,
August 18, Anno 1673, where the dele-
gates from the respective towns of Mid-
wout, Bruckelen, Amers-fort, Utrecht,
Boswyck and Gravesend selected him as
"Schepen." He was also one of the em-
bassy from New Amsterdam and the prin-
cipal Dutch towns to be sent to the Lord
Mayors in Holland on account of their
annoyance from the English and the In-
dians; they complain that they "will be
driven off their lands unless reenforced
from Fatherland." On April 10, 1664, he
took his seat as a representative from
Midwout in that great Landtdag, a gen-
eral assembly called by the burgomasters,
which was held at the City Hall in New
Amsterdam, to take into consideration
the precarious condition of the country.
He was one of the representatives in the
Hempstead convention in 1665, and he ap-
pears as a patentee on the celebrated
Nichols patent, October 11, 1667, and
again on the Dongan patent, November
12, 1685. He was elected captain of the
military company at Midwout, October
25> ^^73' and his brother Jacobus was
given the authority to "administer the
oaths and to install him into office." Cap-
tain Jan Strycker was named March 26,
1674, as a deputy to represent the town
in a conference to be held at New Orange
to confer with Governor Colve on the
present state of the country.

During the first year of his residence at
Midwout he was one of the two commis-
sioners to build the Dutch church there,
the first erected on Long Island, and he
was for many years an active supporter
of the Dominie Johannes Theodorus Pol-
hemus, of the Reformed Church of Hol-
land, in that edifice. After raising a fam-
ily of eight children, every one of whom
lived to adult life and married, seeing his
sons settled on valuable plantations and
occupying positions of influence in the
community, and his daughters marrying
into the families of the Brinckerhoffs, the
Berriens and the Bergens, living to be
over eighty years of age, he died about
the year 1697, full of the honors which
these new towns could bestow, and with
his duties as a civil officer and a free citi-
zen of his adopted country well per-
formed.

Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker, or Jacob
Strycker, as he seems to have generally
written his name, was a younger brother
of Jan and came from the village of
Ruinen in the United Provinces, to New
Amsterdam, in the year 1651. On Febru-
ary 11, 1653, he bought a lot of land "on
west side of the Great Highway, on the
cross street running from the said high-
way to the shore of the North River,
Manhattan Island." A part of this "lot"
is still in possession of the family. He
was a great burgher of New Amsterdam
in 1653-55-57-58-60. In the month of
March, 1653, he appears as subscribing
two hundred guilders to the fund for
erecting a wall of earth mound and
wooden palisades to surround the city of
New Amsterdam to keep off the Puritan
colonists of New England and unfriendly
Indians. On May 27 of the same year the
worshipful schepen, Jacob Strycker, is
the purchaser of a lot of land ten rods
square on what is now Exchange Place,
east of Broad street.

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moved to New Amersfort, Long Island,
now called Flatlands. He must have re-
turned for a time to New Amsterdam, for
in 1663 he appears again as an alderman
of the young colony there. In the year
1660 he and his wife Ytie (Ida) (Huy-
brechts) Strycker, whom he married in
Holland, and who bore him two children,
a son and a daughter, appear on the rec-
ords as members of the old Dutch Church
of New York, and it is noted that he had
removed to New Amersfort. The rec-
ords of the church in the latter place
shows both of them as members there in
the year 1667. On August 18, 1673, he
became schout or high sheriff of all the
Dutch towns on Long Island, a position
of influence and responsibility at that
time. He was also a delegate to the con-
vention, March 26, 1674, to confer with
Governor Colve on the state of the colony.

He seems to have been a gentleman of
considerable means, of much official influ-
ence and of decided culture. He died, as
we find from the church records kept by
Dominie Casparus Van Zuuren, in Octo-
ber, 1687. From this date until the pres-
ent time (1906) the family genealogy has
accurately been traced down by General
William S. Strycker, whose biography we
here append, drafted and adopted by the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States Commandery of the
State of Pennsylvania shortly after his
death.

William Scudder Strycker, son of
Thomas Johnson and Hannah (Scudder)
Strycker, of Trenton, New Jersey, was
born in that city, June 6, 1838, died at his
home in that city, October 29, 1900. He
prepared for college at the Trenton Acad-
emy and was graduated from Princeton
College in the class of 1858. He read law
and was admitted to the bar (Ohio), but
never engaged in active practice. He re-
sponded to President Lincoln's first call

for troops and enlisted as a private April
16, 1861. He was appointed major and
disbursing officer and quartermaster at
Camp Vredenburg, Freehold, New Jer-
sey, July 22, 1862, by the Governor of
New Jersey, and assisted much in organ-
izing the Fourteenth New Jersey there.
He was appointed paymaster of L'nited
State- Volunteers, February 19, 1S63, and
ordered to Hilton Head, South Carolina,
where, July 8, 1863, he volunteered as
acting aide-de-camp to General Gillmore
and participated in the capture of Morris
Island, in the night attack on Fort Wag-
ner, and in the siege of Charleston gen-
erally. Subsequently he was transferred
to the north on account of illness and as-
signed to duty as senior paymaster at
Columbus, Ohio, at Parole Camp, and
continued in charge of that paying dis-
trict (including Detroit) until 1S66, when
he resigned and returned to Trenton.

On January 10, 1867, he was placed on
the staff of the Governor of New Jersey
as aide-de-camp and lieutenant-colonel,
and April 12, 1867, was appointed adju-
tant-general of New Jersey, with the rank
of brigadier-general, which office he held
continuously to his decease (over thirty-
three years) and the duties of which he
discharged with signal ability. He was
nominated brevet major-general by Gov-
ernor Parker for long and meritorious
service, February 9, 1874, and confirmed
by the Senate unanimously.

General Strycker was a wide reader and
close Student, especially of American his-
tory, and collected a large and valuable
library, especially rich in Americana. He
was noted as an author and wrote some of
the best and most accurate historical
monographs yet issued in America, re-
lating particularly to New Jersey and the
battles of Trenton, Princeton and Mon-
mouth. He became so interested in the
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he made a trip to Hesse-Cassel, Germany,
and exhumed from the archives there new
facts of rare value concerning them. His
"Trenton One Hundred Years Ago," "The
Old Barracks at Trenton, N. J.," "The
New Jersey Volunteer-Loyalists," "The
Battles of Trenton and Princeton,"
"The New Jersey Continental Line in the
Virginia Campaign 1781," "Washington's
Reception by the People of New Jersey
in 1789," and other like monographs are
authorities on these subjects, and will
continue so. He also compiled, or had
compiled in his office as adjutant-general,
a "Register of the Officers and Men of
New Jersey in the Revolutionary War"
and a "Record of the Officers and Men of
New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865,"
that abound with painstaking accuracy
and care and that will forever remain as
monuments both to himself and the State.
In recognition of his scholarly work and
worth, his alma mater justly conferred the
degree of Doctor of Laws upon him in
1899.

He was president of the Trenton Battle
Monument Association and the life and
soul of it for years and to his wise and
patriotic conduct is due in large part its
erection at last. He was president of the
Trenton Savings Fund Society and great-
ly interested in its new banking house, an
ornament to his native city. He was a
director of the Trenton Banking Com-
pany and of the Widows' Home Associa-
tion ; also trustee of the First Presby-
terian Church, Trenton, and of the Theo-
logical Seminary at Princeton. He was
president of the New Jersey Society of
the Cincinnati and of the New Jersey
Historical Society, and a member of the
New Jersey Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion ; also a fellow of the
American Geographical and Historical

societies and of the Royal Historical Soci-
ety of London.

General Strycker traveled extensively,
both at home and abroad, and dispensed
a gracious hospitality to Count de Paris
and others, and was everywhere recog-
nized as an American scholar and gentle-
man. He was modest and unassuming
beyond most men, but was an accom-
plished officer and Christian gentleman.
In both his military and civil relations he
was alike honorable and honored. "None
knew him. but to love him, none named
him but to praise." His abilities were of
a high order, and he had a charm of man-
ner and grace of bearing peculiarly his
own. His high qualities, both of head
and heart, his intellectual attainments
and social elegance, marked him as one
of nature's noblemen, and when he passed
away one of the highest types of Ameri-
can soldier, citizen and gentleman was
lost. He was the very soul of probity
and honor. His work is done and it was
well done, and his example remains an
inspiration and a hope.

General Strycker married, September
14, 1870, Helen Boudinot Atterbury, of
New York, and their children were :
Helen Boudinot, wife of John A. Mont-
gomery, Esq. ; Kathlyn Berrien and Wil-
liam Bradford. His wife and three chil-
dren survived him.

HOPPER, John,

Lawyer, Jurist, Legislator.

In the records of the First Reformed
Dutch Church in Hackensack, New Jer-
sey, it is written that William Hoppe was
a member of the church there as early as
1686, that Mattys Hoppe and his wife
Antjie Forkse were members of the same
church in 1687, and that their daughter,
Christyna Hoppe, was baptized there on
her confession of faith in the year 1686.

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There is little question that the surname
Hoppe herein mentioned is identical with
the ancient Holland Dutch name of
Hopper, which has been so well and
prominently known in the region of New
Amsterdam and the New Netherlands for
more than two and a half centuries, but
the exact kinship of either William or
Mattys Hoppe and Garret Hopper is not
clearly settled, although the fair pre-
sumption is that both of the former were
of a single generation anterior to that of
Garret Hopper, and that if one of them
was not his father they both probably
were his uncles, and not of a more remote
degree of consanguinity. During the half
century of undisputed Dutch dominion in
America the family names of Hoppe and
Hopper occur frequently in church and
borough records and they both are known
to stand for and represent a substantial
element of the sturdy people that fol-
lowed Hudson, the navigator and ex-
plorer who in 1609 opened the way for
Dutch colonization and settlement on
Manhattan Island, originally the city of
New Amsterdam but now New York, and
in the regions adjacent thereto, which
during the dominion of Holland on this
side of the Atlantic ocean were within the
jurisdiction of that sovereign power under
the name of New Netherlands; and after
the overthrow of the Dutch power in
America by superior British might both
nanus were still retained for generations
although that of Hopper became finally-
dominant and is generally accepted as the
common family patronymic.

(I) Garret Hopper was of Holland ori-
gin and ancestry, if not of Holland birth,
and it is to him that genealogists and his-
torians have accurately ascribed progeni-
torship of the particular family considered
in these annals. He became possessed by
purchase of a considerable tract of land
extending from Hackensack river to

Slaughter dam, and from which was taken
an ample portion of about five hundred
acres for the family mansion and estate.
There he caused his mansion house to be
built and there he dwelt in comfort to the
end of his days, cultivating his broad
acres and in the enjoyment of the fruits
of industry and a life well spent. The
name of his wife does not appear, nor the
names and dates of birth of all of their
children, although the tradition is that
theirs was a goodly family in numbers as
well as in estate.

(II) Jacob, son of Garret Hopper, was
born previous to 1730, and died about the
year 1815. He had his residence on his
father's estate, and his own house stood
on the Pollifly road leading out from
Paterson turnpike to Carlstadt. He too
was an husbandman of industry and
thrift, giving chiefest attention to the
cultivation of his lands and providing
abundantly for those who were to come
after him in inheritance and possession.
The baptismal name of his wife was Cor-
nelia, and according to records which are
regarded as reasonably accurate they had
four children, all of whom are believed to
have been born on the old homestead :
1. Katrina, married John Earle, who died
about the beginning of the War of the
Revolution. 2. Henry Garret, who with
his brother John occupied the paternal
estate and divided it between themselves.
3. John I., born 1775. 4. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Cornelius Terhune, grandson of John
Terhune, the latter the progenitor of a
notable family in early New Jersey his-
tory.

(III) John I., son of Jacob and Cor-
nelia Hopper, was born in 1775 ; died in
1833, on the family homestead in Hacken-
sack, where his life was chiefly spent;
and not spent in vain endeavor, for he is
remembered as having been one of the
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Bergen county in his time, bringing his
lands to the highest degree of cultivation
and productiveness and tilling them ac-
cording to methods which in many re-
spects were far in advance of his day.
The products of his farm were always of
the best quality and he marketed them in
New York at good cash prices ; his butter
often brought a premium award because
of its superior quality, and he profited
not a little on account of his thrift and
enterprise. He was one of the very first
farmers to carry his produce to market
in a wagon with springs and top, and he
also was one of the first farmers of the
region who sold produce in New York
City. He is said also to have been a man
of excellent education, and it is known
that he attended the private school in
Hackensack of which Dr. Wilson was
then the head master; and a famous
pedagogue he was, as well as being a
man of high educational attainments.

During the second war with the mother
country Mr. Hopper was drafted for serv-
ice in the American army, but he fur-
nished a substitute to take his place in
the ranks. This was not because he was
scrupulous of bearing arms, for none of
the Hoppers ever were wanting in either
moral or physical courage, nor is it be-
lieved that they ever were opposed to
war on principle; but at that time he
evidently felt that he could best serve his
country's cause by furnishing a substitute
in his stead and he might be free to care
for his family and home and farming in-
terests which otherwise must suffer loss.
In 1S18 he built a fine substantial man-
sion house of brownstone, on a command-
ing elevation affording a good view of
the surrounding country. It stood on
what in comparatively recent years be-
came known as Terrace avenue. He was
zealous in religious matters and for many
years was officially connected with the

First Reformed Church as one of its
elders and deacons. For a long time he
vigorously opposed the movements of the
so-called seceders, but finally yielded to
their persuasions and joined them. His
wife was Maria, daughter of Albert Ter-
hune. She was born about 1781 ; died
January 1, 1856, having borne her hus-
band nine children: 1. Cornelia, married
John Terhune, a farmer and miller of
New Barbadoes, who died in 1879, a&ed
seventy-nine years. 2. Altia, married Al-
bert A. Brinkerhoff, of Hackensack. 3.
Catherine, married Jonathan Hopper, a
merchant of Paterson. 4. Albert, died
1833, aged twenty-four years. 5. Jacob
I. 6. John. 7. Eliza. 8. Maria, mar-
ried Henry Demarest, of New York. 9.
Jane, married Dr. George Wilson, of New
York.

(IV) Jacob I., son of John I. and Maria
(Terhune) Hopper, was born on the fam-
ily homestead in Hackensack, December
21, 1810, and spent his whole life there,
engaged in agricultural pursuits and to a
large extent in market gardening and
laising small fruits. So early as 1840 he
began growing strawberries on an exten-
sive scale for the New York market, and
in this business he was very successful
and continued it for many years. So
great indeed was the yield of his fields
that his daily shipments are said to have
averaged more than three thousand
baskets. This of course would not be
regarded as an extraordinary yield for
the present time, but it must be remem-
bered that Mr. Hopper grew market
berries nearly three-quarters of a century
ago, when even a single trip to the market
required a half day's time in going and
returning, and when the plough, the har-
row and the hoe were the only imple-
ments used in preparing the land and cul-
tivating the crops. But notwithstanding
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his business life and a man very highly
respected for his sturdy integrity and up-
right life. In 1835 Mr. Hopper married
Ann, daughter of Garret Mercelis, whose
wife was Lenah de Gray, of Preakness,
Passaic county, New Jersey. She was
born December 13. 1812, died in June,
1868. They had two children: 1. John,
see forward. _'. llllen M.

(IV ) Judge John, son of John I. and
Maria (Terhune) Hopper, was born on
the homestead farm in what now is the
township of Lodi, Bergen county, New
Jersey, March 2, 1814; died in Paterson,
October 15, 1897. He acquired his earlier
literary education at Washington and
Lafayette academies in Hackensack, and
prepared for college under the tutorship
of the Rev. John Croes, at whose classical
school in Paterson he was a student for
some time, and also under the special in-
struction of Mr. Thomas McGahagan,
the once famous master of the old acade-
my in Ilergen Town, now Hudson City,
New Jersey. In 1830 he matriculated at
Rutgers College, entering the sophomore
class, completed the academic course of
that institution and was graduated A. B.
in 1833, cum landc, dividing second honors
with Robert II. Pruyn, afterward min-
ister plenipotentiary from the United
States to Japan. After leaving college
Air. Hopper took up the study of law
under the preceptorship of Governor
Peter D. Vroom, of Somerville, New Jer-
sey, remaining with him about two years,
and afterward continued his studies for
another year in the office of Elias B. D.
Ogden, of Paterson. At a term of the
Supreme Court held at Trenton, Septem-
ber 8, 1836, he was licensed to practice as
an attorney-at-law and solicitor in chan-
cery in all of the courts of this State, and
on February 27, 1840, he became a coun-
selor-at-law.

Having come to the bar Judge Hopper

began his professional career in partner-
ship with his former preceptor, Judge
Ogden, under the firm style of Ogden &
Hopper, which relation was maintained
until 1848, when the senior partner was
elevated to the bench of the Supreme
Court of the State. From that time he
practiced alone until 1869, when he took
as partner his own son, Robert Imlay
Hopper, then recently admitted to the
bar; and thereafter this partnership rela-
tion was continued so long as Judge
Hopper was engaged in active practice,
until he assumed judicial office which
necessitated the laying aside of private
professional employments. During the
long period of his professional career as
an attorney and counselor at law, Judge
Hopper was recognized as one of the
ablest lawyers of the Paterson bar; a
man of the highest character, a lawyer of
distinguished ability, a ripe scholar, and
an advocate with whom principles always
prevailed over expedients. His practice
was largely on the civil side of the courts,
and his clientage was such and the char-
acter and mind of the man were such,
that he was able to accept or decline cases
without danger of pecuniary loss to him-
self; but he would not refuse a case in
which he was not sure of ultimate suc-
cess to his client, although at the same
time he would not allow himself to be
drawn into an action in behalf of a client
whose personal integrity he had reason-
able ground to question. His methods
always were careful, but they were not
laborious, and it was his policy to dis-
courage rather than to promote litigation ;
a safe and prudent counselor in the office,
he nevertheless was a power in the trial
courts, and with him it was a cardinal
principle never to go half prepared into
the trial of an important case ; petty ac-
tions he preferred to be turned over to
the younger members of the profession.

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In the trial of a case he always was
properly deferential to the court, but
never more than that, and never obsequi-
ous in his manner before any tribunal.
In presenting a case to the jury it was
noticeable that he approached the subject
in hand with dignity and in the light of
principle and common sense, addressing
himself to the understanding of his
hearers and never appealing to their
passions. And what may have been true
of him as a lawyer, whether in private
practice or in the capacity of prosecutor
for the people, also was true of him as
a magistrate on the bench of the court,
for there too he was ever dignified and
courteous, always considerate of the
rights of attorneys representing litigant
parties, and especially considerate and
forbearing in his treatment of the younger
members of the profession, frequently en-
couraging them with fatherly assistance
and advice.

Throughout the period of his profes-
sional life Judge Hopper was much of the
time an incumbent of office in connection
with the operation of the courts and the
administration of the law ; town counsel
of Paterson from 1843 to 1847; surrogate
of Passaic county for two terms, 1845 to
1855 ; counsel to the board of chosen free-
holders of Paterson from 1855 to 1864;
prosecutor of the pleas from 1863 to 1868
and from 1871 to 1874. From 1868 to
1871 and again from 1874 to 1877 he was
Senator from Passaic county in the Legis-
lature of the State. In March, 1877, he
was appointed by Governor Bedle judge
of the District Court of Paterson, serv-
ing in that capacity until January 8, 1887,
when he resigned to accept Governor
Abbett's appointment as president judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, Orphans'
Court and Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the unexpired term of Judge Absalom
B. Woodruff, deceased. He was reap-

pointed by Governor Green, March 15,
1887, and again on April 1, 1887, for a
term of five years; and on April 1, 1892,
he was reappointed by Governor Abbett.
In 1879 he was appointed by Chancellor
Runyon one of the advisory masters in
chancery. In political adherence Judge
Hopper was a firm Democrat, and while
he was looked upon as one of the leading
men of the State in the councils of his
party his democracy was of the type
which was calculated to draw strength
to the party and not to engender bitter
antagonisms in the opposition party.
From 1851 until the time of his death he
was a member of the board of trustees
of his alma mater, Rutgers College, and
also was a member of the New Jersey
Historical Society, a director of the Pater-
son & Ramapo Railroad Company, its
first secretary in 1844 and was elected its
treasurer in 185 1.

On June 16, 1840, Judge Hopper mar-
ried Mary A., daughter of Robert Imlay,
at one time a prominent merchant of
Philadelphia; and June 16, 1890, Judge
Hopper and his wife celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage. They had
six children who grew to maturity: 1.
John H., silk manufacturer, member of
the firm of Hopper & Scott, Paterson. 2.
Robert Imlay, lawyer, Paterson. 3. Mary
A., wife of Frank W. Potter, late United
States consul to Marseilles. 4. James, re-
moved to Texas. 5. Caroline. 6. Mar-
garet Imlay, wife of John T. Boyd, of
Brookline. Massachusetts.

FERGUSON, Rev. John,

Clergyman.

This ancient surname is of Scottish
origin, derived from Fergus, a favorite
name and one proudly worn by many
Scotch chiefs in ancient times.

(I) Rev. John Ferguson, immigrant,

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was born December 9, 1788, in Dunse, a
market town in Berwickshire, in the
southern part of Scotland. His grand-
father came from the north of Scotland
and was one of the soldiers of the Duke
of Marlborough, serving in the Scots
Greys, a regiment of heavy cavalry dur-
ing the period of Queen Anne's wars. His
father and uncle came to America and
settled in Newport, Rhode Island. About
the time of the Revolutionary War his
father returned to Scotland, for he was
not willing to take up arms against the
mother country ; but at the age of about
seventy years he returned with his wife
and family to Newport. His wife was
Anne Briggs, of Little Compton. Rhode
Island.

At the time of the return of his father
to this country John Ferguson was a
young man of seventeen years. He was
converted at an early age and at once
began fitting himself for the ministry.
For two years he studied theology with
Dr. Tenney, pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church of Newport, Rhode
Island, intending to enter Yale College
two years in advance of the regular
course. While living in Providence,
Rhode Island, he at one time was a stu-
dent of theology under the instruction of
Rev. Galvin Park, D. D., professor of
ancient languages and later of moral
philosophy at Brown University. How-
ever, he was compelled to abandon his
plans for entering Yale and had to again
enter business pursuits and assume the
care of his father and the maintenance of
his family. For ten years he continued
this course, and during all of that time he
never relinquished the hope of entering
the ministry. He seemed to have a pre-
sentiment that the chief desire of his life
would be fulfilled, and the ten years
proved a period of preparation for that
kind of life, although of quite different

nature from that which he would have
chosen.

His first sermon as a candidate was
preached at Attleboro, Massachusetts,
and his text was "The Lord is a Man of
War." The text and sermon were not
only characteristic of the man and of his
theology, but of his ministry, which to
use his own expression was "warlike."
lie never shrank from the defense of
truth, never hesitated to sacrifice com-
fort, reputation or means of support in
the maintenance of principle. He was
ordained in Attleboro, February 27, 1822,
and dismissed March 25, 1835. Li speak-
ing of his ministry there one writer says:
"It was of great value in the administra-
tion of wise and judicious measures and
marked the beginning of the system of
support to the various benevolent enter-
prises of the day, and of aid to the labors
of parent and pastor by a judicious and
careful education of children in Sabbath
schools, and maternal associations." After
leaving Attleboro Mr. Ferguson was set-
tled in Whately, Massachusetts, from
March 16, 1836, until June 7, 1840. He
was called Father Ferguson and was a
man to whom churches looked for coun-
sel and pastors for advice, often when
pastors and churches were involved in
difficulties. "He was very often solicited
to appear as advocate before ecclesiastical
courts, and many a time as he has done
this have the coolness and shrewdness,
the wit and wisdom with which he advo-
cated the course extorted the exclamation
'what a lawyer he would have made'.-' He
almost always defended the weaker party,
his sympathies frequently inclining to the
unpopular side. "He was always ready
to grasp the shield and poise his lance
for the injured and defenceless. In all
such cases he sniffed the battle like the
war horse and fought with all the chiv-
alry and the courtesy of a Christian

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knight." He became extensively known
as the "champion of the oppressed," al-
though at the same time he was equally
well known as "a lover and maker of
peace."

He preached for about two years at
Lanesborough and Whately, the place of
his former settlement, and in 1842 became
general agent for the American Tract
Association for the States of Vermont
and New Hampshire, in which office and
its duties he was very successful ; and
he really became the Congregational
bishop for those two States. He died at
Whately, November n, 1858. He was a
man of vigorous mind and of vigorous
body, a large-hearted man, of keen wit,
"but his keenest shafts were winged with
kindness." He was social and genial in
manner. Realizing the defects of his own
education — never having graduated from
any college — he labored hard and made
many sacrifices to give each of his sons
e. college education. Amherst College
bestowed on him the honorary degree of
Master of Arts, a proof that although he
had been denied the advantages of a col-
lege course he had by his own exertions
thoroughly educated himself and the com-
pliment was a source of great gratifica-
tion to him. Mr. Ferguson published a
sermon on the death of Ebenezer Dag-
gett, Jr., which was delivered December
16, 1831, and several other discourses.
He also published for the use of Sunday
schools a "Memoir of Dr. Samuel Hop-
kins," the celebrated theologian.

Mr. Ferguson married (first) June 7,
1813, Mary V. Hammett, of Newport,
Rhode Island, by whom he had two chil-
dren. She died June 30, 1818, and he
man-ied (second) April 28, 1819, Mar-
garet S. Eddy, of Providence, who died
May 6, 1871, by whom he had nine chil-
dren. Children: 1. John, born January
(, 1815; married Sarah Moore. 2. Mar-

garet, November 11, 1816, died December
19, 1819. 3. Mary H., February 25, 1820;
married Charles D. Stockbridge. 4. Peter,
December 13, 1821, died October 14, 1822.
5. Peter, July 20, 1823. 6. William E.,
April 1, 1825, died June 6, 1854; married
Elizabeth Saw^telle. 7. Rev. George R.,
March 19, 1829; married Susan Pratt, of
Andover. 8. Margaret E., December 9,
1830; married H. B. Allen, of New Haven,
Connecticut. 9. James A., November 17,
1832; married Claudia Churchill, of New
Orleans. 10. Anna B., May 3, 1835, died
August 6, 1840. 11. Abby Park, April 4,
i837-

STEVENSON, James,

Educator, Litterateur.

On August 7, 1764, a tract of twenty-
five thousand acres of land situated at
what is now Salem, Washington county,
New York, was granted Alexander Turn-
er and twenty-four others residing in Pel-
ham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and
these proprietors conveyed an undivided
half to Oliver Delancy and Peter Dubois,
of New York City. The whole tract of
twenty-five thousand acres was marked
off into three hundred and four small
farms of eighty-eight acres each, suitable
to the requirements of a Scotch-Irish
farming colony.

The "New Light heresies" which in the
middle of the eighteenth century sowed
dissensions in the Presbyterian churches
in Scotland and Ireland caused an Irish
Presbyterian community in and about
Monaghan and Ballibay to petition the
Associate Burgher Presbytery of Glas-
gow, Scotland, to furnish them with ortho-
dox preaching. Rev. Thomas Clark, M.
D., an ordained minister of this Glasgow
Presbytery, was thereupon sent "as a mis-
sionary to Ireland," and shortly after was
regularly ordained and installed by a com-

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mittee of the Glasgow Presbytery over
the church at Ballibay, where he became
greatly honored and beloved for his piety
and zeal. Bitter persecution, however,
instigated by prominent members of the
rival Presbyterian church in Ballibay in-
duced Dr. Clark and a large portion of his
flock to seek a new home in the wilds of
America. Dr. Clark and his parishioners
sailed for New York from Neury, Ire-
land, May 10, 1764, arriving there July 28,
1764. The unique feature of this interest-
ing emigration is the fact that the entire
church organization was transferred from
Ireland to -America. An Irish Presby-
terian church with a Scotch pastor affili-
ated ecclesiastically with a Scotch Pres-
byterian Assembly was thus transferred
to America in a body. As stated in the
"Salem Book," there were none of the
formalities of organizing a church. No
admission of members or election of trus-
tees. The company was already a per-
fectly organized religious society with
its pastor, its elders, its members, all reg-
ularly constituted. Dr. Clark had never
resigned nor had the Presbytery released
him from his pastoral charge over these
people. We doubt if any other religious
society has been transferred from the Old
to the New World in a manner so regular
and orderly and with so little to vitiate its
title to a continuous identity." Dr. Clark
searched for a suitable place on which he
and his people could establish their
church and their homes, and after much
investigation and travel he secured on
September 13, 1765, from Delancy and
Dubois their undivided share of the twen-
ty-five thousand acre tract, which already
had been sub-divided into farms as above
stated. The result of acquiring rights
to the allotment of farms distributed
throughout a large tract, instead of ac-
quiring the whole of a tract which the
colonists could divide among themselves,

was that the Scotch-Irish and Scotch
colony under Dr. Clark were intermingled
over a wide territory with a New Eng-
land colony who divided among them-
selves the farms which represented the
half of the tract which Dr. Clark did not
purchase. Dr. Clark and his people were
under obligation after five years to pay a
rent of one shilling per acre, and hence
they no doubt urgently invited their co-
religionists from Scotland as well as from
Ireland to join them, and within ten years
from the original settlement a very sub-
stantial addition to the colony was made
by emigrants from the part of Scotland
from which Dr. Clark had come. Dr.
Clark named the settlement New Perth,
while the New England settlers called it
White Creek. On March 2, 1774, the
Legislature of New York combined both
tracts into the township of New Perth
thus establishing a legal name, which re-
mained until March 7, 1788, when in
dividing the whole State into counties and
towns, the name New Perth was changed
to Salem, located in Washington county,
New York. This was the objective point
to which the passengers of the brig,
"Commerce," were bent on April 20, 1774,
when James Stevenson and his family left
Scotland for the New World.

(II) James (2), son of James (1) Steven-
son, a shawl weaver of Scotland, was the
founder of this family in America. He
was born in the home of his parents on
the bank of the Bonnie Doon in Ayrshire,
Scotland, about the year 1747. When a
young man he removed to Paisley, where
he learned the trade of silk and linen
weaver. He joined the Scotch Presby-
terian church in Paisley, at that time hav-
ing as its pastor the distinguished divine,
John Witherspoon. While a citizen of
Paisley he married Margaret, daughter
of David Brown, of Stewartson, Scotland,
and while residents of Paisley three chil-

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dren — James, Jane and John — were born.
The family embarked at Greenock, Scot-
land, April 20, 1774, in the brig, "Com-
merce," with several other families, their
destination being the Scotch settlement
at New Perth in the State of New York.
He had allotted to him a farm located two
miles east of the present village of Salem,
Washington county, whereon he settled
and lived during the remainder of his life.
In 1896 this farm was owned by two of
his grandsons, Thomas S. and Robert M.,
sons of Thomas and Agnes (McMurray)
Stevenson. The first election held in the
town of New Perth, now Salem, was on
September 8, 1774, and James Stevenson
voted at that election. Soon after the
American Revolution had assumed a defi-
nite purpose, he volunteered for military
service in the New Perth Company, com-
manded by Captain Alexander McNitt.
Upon his arrival James Stevenson became
a member of the church of Dr. Thomas
Clark and was afterward one of its rul-
ing elders. When Dr. Clark severed his
relations with the congregation in 1782,
Mr. Stevenson went on horseback through
the almost unbroken wilderness from Sa-
lem, New York, to Pequea, near Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, to endeavor to per-
suade the Rev. James Proudfit to become
pastor of the church at Salem as suc-
cessor to Dr. Clark, who had resigned to
join another Scotch settlement in South
Carolina as their pastor. In this mission
he was entirely successful and Dr. Proud-
fit became the second pastor of the Scotch
church in Salem. Mr. Stevenson brought
with him from Paisley, Scotland, a large
library of excellent books, and a quantity
of fine linen, the product of the industry
of his family, and these heirlooms are
highly prized by his descendants.

Children of James and Margaret
(Brown) Stevenson: 1. James, see for-
ward. 2. Jane, born in Scotland ; married

George Telford and settled in Argyle,
New York. 3. John, born in Scotland;
married Katherine McLeod and settled in
Howard, Steuben county, New York,
where he died in 1863. 4. David, born in
Salem, New York, died there unmarried.
5. Thomas, born in Salem ; married (first)
Agnes, daughter of John McMurray :
married (second) Mary, daughter of
Joshua Steele ; his children were : Thomas
S., Robert M. and James B. ; Thomas
Stevenson lived on the hom,estead ; was
an elder in the church at Salem for nearly
half a century ; died in Salem, 1854, aged
seventy-five years. James Stevenson,
father of these children, died in Salem,
New York, April 19, 1799, and his widow
died the following year.

(Ill) James (3), eldest child of James
(2) and Margaret (Brown) Stevenson,
was born in Paisley, Scotland, January 8,
1762. He came with his parents, sister
Jane and brother John to America in 1774.
He was prepared for college by his father,
and then entered the Hackensack Classi-
cal Academy, conducted by Dr. Peter
Wilson, afterwards of Columbia College,
and was graduated at Queen's now Rut-
gers College, Bachelor of Arts, 1789. He
was principal of the academy at Morris-
town, New Jersey, the Rutgers grammar
school, and in 181 1 was appointed princi-
pal of the Washington Academy, Salem,
New York, in which institution he proved
himself one of the ablest classical teach-
ers in the country. Among his pupils,
several of whom have written eulogis-
tically of his character, his attainments
and his extraordinary skill and capacity
as an instructor, were Dr. Philip Lindsay,
vice-president of Princeton and president
of Nashville, Tennessee, University, Pro-
fessor Henry Mills, of Auburn Theologi-
cal Seminary, Samuel L. Southard, Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen, Rev. Jacob Kirkpat-
rick and Rev. Dr. George W. Bethune.

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That eminent scholar, Dr. Taylor Lewis,
professor in Union College, who was a
pupil for two years in the Salem Acad-
emy, in some reminiscences which he
writes of his beloved instructor, says:
"He stands in my remembrance as the
best model that I ever knew of the most
honorable and dignified profession, the
schoolmaster's. Some of the thoughts re-
specting him come to my mind when I
read Dr. Arnold, the best example of a
teacher that England ever produced."
James Stevenson was a trustee of Wash-
ington Academy, incorporated February
18, 1791. the fourth academy incorporated
in the State of New York and the first free
academy established in the State outside
of New York City. He contributed to the
newspapers and magazines of the time de-
voted to educational and religious sub-
jects.

James Stevenson married Hannah,
daughter of Richard Johnson, of Morris
county, New Jersey. Children: James,
Sarah, Martha, Richard, Paul Eugene,
Anna Louisa. James Stevenson, father
of these children, died October 9, 1843, in
the eighty-second year of his age.

TRENCHARD, James H„

Authority on Land Titles.

The Trenchard family belongs to a
good old English stock which had made
its name in the old country many years
before it was transplanted to the new
world. The family traces its origin back
to Pogames Trenchard, who held land in
County Dorset during the reign of Henry
I., in 1090. In the sixteenth and the pre-
ceding century they had intermarried
with the Damosels and the Moleynes.

(I) Thomas Trenchard, Knight, of
Wolverton, was born 1582, died 1657; he
was knighted by King James I., Decem-
ber 14, 1613, and held the office of high

sheriff of Dorset ; he was the founder of
the branch of the family at present under
consideration. His son Thomas is re-
ferred to below.

ill) Sir Thomas (2) Trenchard, son of
Sir Thomas ( 1 ) Trenchard, was born in
Wolverton, County Dorset, in 1615, died
in [671. Like his father he was a baronet.
In [638 lie married Hannah, born 1620,
died 1691, daughter of Robert I lenley, of
Bramhill, Hampshire. Their son John
is referred to below. Two of his cousins,
Grace Trenchard, who married Colonel
William Sydenham, and Jane, who mar-
ried John Sadler, of Wardwell, were
strong supporters of Oliver Cromwell.

(Ill) John, son of Sir Thomas (2) and
Hannah (Henley) Trenchard, was born
in Wolverton. County Dorset. England.
March 30, 1640, died in 1695. He matric-
ulated from New College, Oxford, in 1665.
He was elected a member of Parliament
for Taunton, February 20, 1678, and was
a number of the club of Revolutionaries
which met at the King's Head Tavern in
Fleet street. November 2, 1680, he spoke
against the recognition by parliament of
the Duke of York as the heir apparent,
and in July, 1683, he was arrested as a
conspirator, but released for lack of evi-
dence. In 1687 William Penn, who was
a warm personal friend of Trenchard,
obtained from King James II. a free par-
don for Sir John and he was again elected
to parliament. He was one of those who
united in the invitation to William of
Orange to come over and seize the Eng-
lish throne. October 29. 1689, he was
knighted at Whitehall and was appoint-
ed to the office of chief justice of Chester,
which he held until his death. In No-
vember, 1682, John Trenchard married
Philippa, daughter of George Speake, and
the sister of Charles and Hugh Speake,
by whom he had four sons, one of whom
is George, referred to below.

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(IV) George, son of John and Philippa
(Speake) Trenchard, was born in county
Somerset, New York, in 1686, died at
Alloway township, Salem county, New
Jersey, in 1712. He was probably mar-
ried and had several children. In his will
he names as his children : George, Ed-
ward, John, Joan.

(V) George (2), son of George (1)
Trenchard, died in Salem county, in the
latter part of 1728. Coming to America
with his father he settled in Salem county
and from 1723 to 1725 was sheriff. He
was also one of the deputy sheriffs for
West Jersey and also one of the asses-
sors. By his marriage with Mary Ben-
der, of Salem county, he had five sons
and several daughters. The daughters
married into several of the leading fam-
ilies of Salem and have left numerous de-
scendants. The sons were: 1. Curtis,
born 1740, died 1780; from 1778 to 1779
clerk of Salem county, later surrogate.
He married the daughter of Attorney
Burcham, of Salem. His son Edward
was in the United States Navy, com-
manded the "Constitution" at the siege
of Tripoli and the "Madison" in the War
of 1812 and other famous men-of-war. 2.
John, referred to below. 3. James. 4.
George, born 1748, died 1780; was attor-
ney-general of West Jersey from 1769
to 1776, prominent in the Salem commit-
tee of safety and the Camden Second
Battalion, Salem County Light Horse,
and one of those to whom Colonel Maw-
hood's letter was addressed. He married
Mary, daughter of Judge Andrew Sin-
nickson, of Salem. 5. Thomas.

(VI) John (2), son of George (2) and
Mary (Bender) Trenchard. was born in
174-'. He lived for a time at Cohansey
Bridge, and about 1768 with his brother
bought a property at the northwest cor-
ner of Laurel and Jefferson streets, which
was afterwards owned by James Boyd, at

the commencement of the Revolution,
where for several years afterwards Mr.
Boyd's widow resided and kept a store
there. In 1769 they sold this property
and afterwards removed to Fairfield,
where he died in 1823. He was twice
married. His first wife was Theodosia
Ogden, by whom he had ten children,
three sons and seven daughters. The
sons were: 1. John, referred to below. 2.
Curtis. 3. Richard.

(VII) John (3), son of John (2) and
Theodosia (Ogden) Trenchard, died in
1863. In early life he worked as a black-
smith with Curtis Edwards, whose shop
was situated on the old road from Bridge-
ton and Fairfield to Rocap's Run. He
continued in that employment four or five
years, and then went into business at
Fairton, keeping store with Daniel P.
Stratton. When Mr. Stratton removed
to Bridgeton in 1814 John Trenchard con-
tinued business, sometimes alone and
sometimes with a partner for twenty
years, being engaged in building vessels
and in getting lumber and shipping same
to Philadelphia, this being at that time
a highly profitable business. He also
sent produce to Bermuda. In 1843 he
purchased from David Clark the mill
property at Fairton and in 1845 moved
the mill to its present site, where by close
attention to business he amassed a very
considerable estate. During all his life
he was most highly esteemed by his asso-
ciates. In early life he was a Democrat
and a supporter of John Quincy Adams
rather than Jackson and became a Whig.
In 1827-28 he was elected a member of
the New Jersey Legislature.

John Trenchard married (first), in
1803, Eleanor Davis, who bore him seven
children. Married (second) Hannah L.
Pearson, in 1816. She bore him thirteen
children. Ten of these children died in
infancy. Children of John and Eleanor

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(Davis) Trenchard to reach maturity manner. At this time Mr. Trenchard was

were: i. James Howell, referred to be-
low. 2. Ethan, twice married, his second
wife being a Miss Diament. 3. Eleanor.
Children of John and Hannah L. (Pear-
son) Trenchard who reached maturity
were: 4. John, M. D., of Philadelphia,
married (first) Mary Olnsted and (sec-
ond) a Miss Booth. 5. Theophilus, of
Bridgeton, New Jersey. 6. Emily, mar-
ried the Hon. George S. Whiticar, of Fair-
ton. 7. Rufus, married Sarah Jane Ben-
nett. 8. Nancy, married the Rev. David
Meeker, a Presbyterian minister. 9. John,
died unmarried. 10. Henry Clay.

(VIII) James Howell, son of the Hon.
John (3) and Eleanor (Davis) Trenchard,
was born May 20, 181 1, in Fairton, New
Jersey, died February 27, 1877, after a
severe illness of about ten days duration.
He went into the mercantile business
soon after his marriage, having purchased
the interest of his father-in-law, Judge
Barrett, which he continued for a time
until he removed to Centreville (now
Centreton) in the fall of 1839, where he
entered largely into the general store and
milling business and the lumber trade.
In early life he was for a while under the
Rev. Dr. George Junkin, of Easton, Penn-
sylvania. He had a liking for mathe-
matics and soon began surveying in this
branch, abounding in intricate cases in
great land try-outs. In the fall of 1848
Mr. Trenchard was elected to the New
Jersey Assembly on the Whig ticket. He
was very popular in his own neighbor-
hood and received the votes of many in
the township whose policies were op-
posed to his purely from personal con-
siderations. He refused to run a second
time, the corruption of the lobby and the
questionable character of a large part of
the public and private legislature as then
and since directed having no charms for
one of his honest, frank and independent

very frequently called upon to find old
searches, to settle disputes as to title and
to act as commissioner, also to engage in
surveying whenever wanted. He did not
give his whole attention to these matters
until he removed to Bridgeton in the
spring of 1863. Here his son was with
the firm of J. H. and W. B. Trenchard,
surveyors, which was then one of the
most prominent ones in that section of
the State. No person in New Jersey had
done more practical surveying or tramped
more miles in all weathers and under all
conditions than had this James H. Tren-
chard. At various times he had had many
of the most valuable papers in his pos-
session relating to the lands in the lower
counties of the State. Consequently he
became thoroughly conversant with the
titles, butts, bounds, courses and descrip-
tions and all other matters relating to
lower Jersey's real estate. lie always
carefully preserved copies of maps of all
surveys made by him, and these are of
very great use to persons asking informa-
tion in regard to landed property. He
possessed great natural kindness of heart
and was generous in his impulses, which
rallied around him earnest friends. Not
the least of his merits was his unflinching
patriotism. At the time of his death he
was city surveyor, a position which he
had long held. As such he established
me present grade of the Bridgeton streets,
and also at the time of his death was
serving his second term as councilman
from the second ward. He was president
of the Bridgeton Water Works of Bridge-
ton, New Jersey, and a forerunner in the
movement which secured the city's pres-
ent water works.

The Hon. James Howell Trenchard
married Mary, daughter of Judge Wil-
liam D. Barrett, of Fairton, New Jersey,
who was born in 1815 and who bore four

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sons and three daughters. Three sons
and two of the daughters married. The
other one died unmarried. Children: I.
Richard, who was killed, as was also his
wife, July 30, 1896, in the Meadow disas-
ter, Atlantic City, leaving five children.
2. William B. 3. James W. 4. Thomas
W., died aged fourteen. 5. Eleanor, mar-
ried J. T. Williams, of Philadelphia; she
is deceased. 6. Jeanette, married Charles
R. Elmer, now deceased; she lives in
Riverton, New Jersey. 7. Araminta, died
in infancy.

IRICK, Gen. John S.,

Soldier, Public Official.

The progenitor of the Irick family in
America was Johan Eyrich, of Palatina,
Holland, who landed at Philadelphia with
his brother William about A. D. 1750-60.

(I) John Irick (Johan Eyrich) came to
Pemberton, New Jersey, and lived with
Dr. William Budd, a large owner of pro-
prietory lands, and at his death John Irick
remained with the widow for some years,
becoming interested in purchasing large
tracts of lands, by which he laid the foun-
dation of the future wealth of the family.
We have not been able to establish the
fact that he must have been possessed of
a competency upon his arrival in this
country, but it is believed that he was so
possessed, for he could not in such short
time have amassed the large estate of
which he died possessed. He with others
was naturalized by the provincial legis-
lature in 1770, his name being anglicized
to John Irick. The record of his marriage
shows that General Elias Boudinot be-
came the bondsman in five hundred
pounds at that time, which fact indicates
that he was not yet twenty-one years old.
Besides being a man of large means, he
was a strong churchman, and for many
years was prominently identified with St.

Mary's Church (Episcopal) of Burling-
ton. Among his possessions was a large
estate between Burlington and Mt. Holly,
and there he spent the greater part of his
life, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He
married, 2 mo. 28, 1761, Mary Sailer, and
(second) 2 mo. 26, 1781, Mary Shinn. He
died in 1826, aged about eighty-six years.
His children, William and John, were by
the first wife, Mary Sailer.

(II) General William Irick, elder son
of John and Mary (Sailer) Irick, was
born near Burlington, New Jersey, in
1767, died January 26, 1832. Immediately
after his marriage he removed from his
father's homestead on the road from Mt.
Holly to Burlington, to Vincentown, New
Jersey, and settled on the farm now
owned and occupied by his grandson,
Henry J. Irick. He received his educa-
tion in the academic schools of Burling-
ton, and after leaving school took up sur-
veying and conveyancing in connection
with his extensive farming operations.
His public documents, deeds, articles of
agreement, etc., are well and accurately
written, and still serve very well as
models from which to copy. He early be-
came interested in public affairs, and filled
many positions of trust and honor; was a
member of the House of Assembly in 1804,
and again from 181 1 to 1814, inclusive,
and member of the Governor's Council
from 1815 to 1817. During the second
war with the mother country he was in
command of the State militia at Billings-
port, and thus acquired the military title
by which he was ever afterward known
and addressed. In politics General Irick
was a staunch Whig. His death was
much lamented by a wide circle of de-
voted friends, chief among whom was
Chief Justice Ewing, with whom he
always maintained an intimate friend-
ship. He married Margaret, daughter of
Job and Anne (Munro) Stockton ; chil-

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dren: i. Anne, married Colonel Thomas
Fox Budd, of Vincentown. 2. Mary, mar-
ried Marzilla Coat, also of Burlington
county. 3, William, see post. 4. Job, see
post. 5. John Stockton, see post.

(Ill) General William (2) Irick, son
of General William (1) and Margaret
(Stockton) Irick, was born on the Irick
homestead, near Vincentown, Burlington
county, New Jersey, December 20, 1799,
died August 17, 1864. He followed in the
footsteps of his father as a surveyor and
business man, and always lived in Vin-
centown. He also was honored by his
fellow townsmen with many public offices
and was the last member of the old coun-
cil of New Jersey from Burlington county
under the continental constitution. His
acts of charity and benevolence were un-
bounded, and he always was ready to lend
a helping hand to his neighbor. He was
a man of fine stature, standing full six
feet tall, weighing two hundred and
twenty-five pounds, energetic and pains-
taking in all of his business transactions.
He took great interest in military affairs,
and he and his staff were a soldierly look-
ing body of men. In his magisterial ca-
pacity of justice of the peace he married
many of the very first people of hi-; and
the adjoining counties. At the outbreak
of the Civil War, notwithstanding his
physical infirmities, General Irick ten-
dered his services to Governor Olden, but
under a reorganization of the State militia
about that time he was legislated out of
his military office. He did the next best
thing, however, in aiding the government
by pledging his ample fortune through
Jay Cooke & Company in support of the
Union cause. General Irick married 1 first )
Sarah, daughter of Amos and Lydia Heu-
lings, of Evesham township. Burlington
county. She died in 1852, and he married
(second) Mrs. Sarah Eayre. He had five
children — all daughters — by the first wife,

and one child by his second wife: I.
Lydia H., married Franklin Hilliard, of
Burlington county. 2. Margaret, mar-
ried David B. Peacock, of Philadelphia.
3-4. Eliza Ann and Mary Ann, twins ;
Eliza Ann died in early womanhood ;
Mary married Benjamin F. Champion, of
Camden county. 5. Cornelia, married
John W. Brown, Esq., of Burlington
county. 6. William John, now president
of the First National Bank of Vincen-
town, and whose home is near the pater-
nal home in Southampton township.

(Ill) Job, second son of General Wil-
liam (1) and Margaret (Stockton) Irick,
was a land surveyor and successful farm-
er, but he died early in August, 1830, at
the age of thirty-seven years. He mar-
ried Matilda Burr, and lived and died in
Southampton township. He had one son,
William H. Irick (father of Mary Irick
Drexel), and two daughters, both of
whom married and lived in Philadelphia.

(HI) General John Stockton, third son
of General William (1) and Margaret
(Stockton) Irick, was born on the old
homestead in Southampton township, Au-
gust 4, 181 1, died August 4, 1894. In
May, 1832, he married and being so nearly
of age at that time, his brothers, William
and Job, executors of his father's will,
permitted him to occupy his inheritance
at once, and took him into partnership in
working off and marketing the timber
growing on the broad acres devised to
them jointly. Both he and his wife hav-
ing a handsome landed estate, their way
in the world was successful from the be-
ginning, until along in the fifties, when he
joined with nine other men in the iron
foundry business at Lumberton, as part-
ners, without being incorporated, each
member being personally responsible for
all its obligations, and trusting to the
management of two of the partners, at
the end of a very few years the concern

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became heavily involved, and he realized
the fact that he was held responsible for
$250,000, all that he was worth at that
time. But with the same energy that
always characterized his actions, he took
hold of the concern, came to the aid of the
bankrupt cities, built their gas and water
works and financed them, and soon paid
off the indebtedness and saved a hand-
some profit while the others stood off
without offering any material aid. The
war of the rebellion broke out at about
this time, and under the reorganization
of the State militia he, with three others,
was appointed by Governor Olden to or-
ganize and command it, with the rank of
major-general. Upon the election of
Governor Parker, he was continued and
gave his time and services throughout
the war. He, like his brother William,
tendered through Jay Cooke his fortune
in defence of the Union. He was a mem-
ber of the New Jersey House of Assem-
bly, 1847-48-49, and never lost his inter-
est in public affairs, always taking an
active part in politics as an ardent Whig
and Republican. His only other public
office was that of freeholder, serving as
director of the board during his three
years' term. It was largely through his
efforts that the first railroads in Burling-
ton county were built and he was a direc-
tor in all of them. He also was instru-
mental in organizing the First National
Bank of Vincentown, being its president
until his death, when William John Irick
succeeded him. He died August 4, 1894,
upon his eighty-third birthday, leaving a
large circle of acquaintances and friends.
General Irick married, May 17, 1832, Erne-
line S. Bishop, a Quakeress, daughter of
Japheth and Rachel Bishop. She was
born in Vincentown in 1814, died April
2,1895; children: 1. Henry J. 2. Rachel
B., September 9, 1835 ; married Charles
Sailer. 3. Samuel S., August 30, 1838;

married Susan Butterworth. 4. Margaret
A., January 1, 1841 ; married Henry B.
Burr. 5. Job, August 8, 1844; died young.
6. John B. 7. Emeline, 1848; died young.
8. Robert H., June 30, 1851 ; died young.

NEWMAN, John,

Man of Affairs.

John Newman, former mayor of the
city of Bayonne, New Jersey, and late
president of the Mechanics' Trust Com-
pany, the leading financial institution of
that city, was born in England, February
12, 1831, died at his residence on Avenue
C, Bayonne, November 2, 1901. He was
the son of George and Elizabeth New-
man, and grandson of George Newman.

John Newman was reared under Chris-
tian influence, and his education some-
what limited, was acquired in the parish
schools of his native town. At the age
of seventeen years, impelled by a strong
desire to seek his fortune, he, with the
consent of his father, emigrated to the
United States and after a long sailing
voyage arrived in New York in the early
part of 1848, with no other friends than
those gained during the voyage. On his
arrival in New York he sought out an old-
time friend of his father's family, Henry
Robinson, who at that time was a pros-
perous merchant at No. 70 William street,
and a member of the wholesale dry goods
firm of Robinson & Parsons. Here the
young man began life in the commercial
world, like many others at the beginning
with a determination to succeed. He soon
found favor with his employers, and by
his strict attention to the business in all
its details and his probity rose to posi-
tions of greater responsibility and re-
muneration, his employers realizing that
in their young employee was the making
of a thorough, reliable factor in their busi-
ness. He remained with the firm until

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the civil war when, like many other firms,
they became embarrassed owing to the
closing of the southern markets. With
the careful savings acquired by much self-
denial, Mr. Newman began to look about
in other fields of enterprise and shortly
afterward engaged in the lighterage and
packet trade with John S. Conklin, a fel-
low clerk in the house of Robinson &
Parsons, with headquarters at No. 87
Broad street ; the firm operated three
transportation freight boats from the
New York docks to various destinations
in and about New York. After a partner-
ship of seven years, Mr. Newman sold his
interests and entered into the fire and
marine insurance business with A. G.
Brown under the firm name of Newman
& Brown, at No. 105 Broad street, which
in later years was transferred to No. 35
South William street. During the period
of the firm's success Mr. Brown was re-
moved by death, Mr. Newman continuing
the business up to his death in his own
name. Henry Byron Newman, a nephew,
was admitted to partnership, the business
being continued under his very able man-
agement.

During Mr. Newman's career in the in-
surance world he became associated with
his brother David in the wholesale and
retail dry goods business at Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin, where the brother took up a
residence. The undertaking was emi-
nently successful from the start, David
taking the management of the business in
the far west while John assumed the buy-
ing in New York, with regular yearly
trips to the western house. With an
already large demand for their products
and the reputation of the Newman house,
the enterprise speedily developed into one
of the large firms in that line in Wiscon-
sin, where the brothers continued for a
period of over fifteen years, subsequently
removing to Lincoln, Nebraska, where

they erected a handsome business block
in the heart of the business district of
that city. Since the death of the brothers,
which occurred within two months of
each other in 1901, the business has been
leased, the heirs of each holding their re-
spective shares of the profits. The suc-
cess that marked Mr. Newman's manage-
ment of the two vast concerns naturally
attracted the attention of men connected
with private and municipal affairs and he
was eagerly sought for influential places
in the administration. Upon the organi-
zation of the Mechanics' Trust Company
of Bayonne, he was elected the first presi-
dent, March 1, 1886, in which office he
presided until his death. Under his care-
ful and discreet management the business
foundation of this institution was estab-
lished, upon which the present magnifi-
cent superstructure has been built, a
monument to his name and executive
ability.

The broader field of his activity did not
preclude his interest in and sympathy
with the municipal and business affairs
of his city. His opinions were models in
their way and his name was looked upon
as the most favorable and prominent in
party affairs. He served for over four-
teen years as a member of the city coun-
cil and was president of the board; he
was elected mayor of Bayonne in 1887
and presided in this honorable position
five successive terms, up to 1891, gain-
ing great credit for his party, his Repub-
lican principles being fully administered
during that period. He served as presi-
dent of the Bayonne Building and Loan
Association. He was popular in social
life and a leading member of the New
Jersey Athletic Club, the outgrowth of
the old Argonata Rowing Association,
which had a remarkable history of win-
ning events. He became its president
and a director. He was a member of the

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Masonic fraternity and was made a mem-
ber of Bayonne Lodge, No. 99, Free and
Accepted Masons, July 1, 1869. He
served that body as its worshipful master
during 1874-75-78, and was treasurer from
1880 until his death in 1901, filling these
offices of trust with great credit to his
lodge and himself. He was formerly a
member of Company No. 1, Bayonne Fire
Department, and was formerly regimental
paymaster of the old New York Second
Regiment Volunteer Militia previous to
the Civil War.

As in public life so in private life Mr.
Newman was a model man. In his home,
which he loved so devotedly, he was all
that a loving husband could be. In the
church, which was his supreme delight,
he was a pillar. Reared in the Episcopal
faith, he soon after coming to his adopted
land became a communicant of the Jane
Street Methodist Church, New York City,
where he was united in marriage to Mary
Frances La Force, daughter of David and
Abbie (Burnet) La Force, July 28, 1852,
the ceremony being performed by the
Rev. Mr. Longsberry. She later, by pro-
fession of faith, became a member of the
Metropolitan Methodist Church, where
he was leader of the choir and basso for
a number of years. He also was secre-
tary and librarian of the Sunday school.
In September, 1865, he removed to Bay-
onne, New Jersey, and purchased his at-
tractive residence on Avenue C. Mr. and
Mrs. Newman became members at this
time of the Dutch Reformed church,
where they worshipped about twelve years.
Later both became interested in the or-
ganization and building of the First Pres-
byterian Church, the faith under which
Mrs. Newman was reared. Mr. Newman
took a keen interest in the affairs of this
church and became its choir leader and
trustee, also serving on other executive
boards. The religious element in his char-

acter was positive and of a high type. He
was a close student of religious subjects,
free from cant and narrowness, and pre-
served throughout his public, as in his
private career, the preeminent Christian
character. He was a man of the people,
plain and simple, possessed of a strong
personality that greatly endeared him to
all who knew him and came in contact
with him. He was a man whose strong
and honest convictions could not be
swerved under the most trying circum-
stances. The following resolutions were
passed at the time of Mr. Newman's
death :

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of
Mechanics' Trust Company of the City of Bay-
onne, New Jersey, held November 6, 1901, the
following Preamble and Resolutions were unani-
mously adopted : God in his wisdom has again
removed from our councils one of our most active
and valued members. John Newman has been
the executive head of this company since its or-
ganization for business in 1886, and has served in
that capacity with great fidelity. Our exceptional
success has been due in a large measure to his
ceaseless activity and constant interest in promot-
ing the growth of this Institution. His intimate
knowledge of the municipal affairs of this city
gained by having held for a number of years vari-
ous positions as member of the Board of Educa-
tion, member of the Common Council and Mayor
of this city, gave him that broad experience with
men and affairs which increased wonderfully his
usefulness as the head of this company. Through
its infancy and during the formative period of
this company his ripe experience, sound judg-
ment and conservative methods have inspired that
confidence in this institution and its management
that has led to its attaining the strong financial
standing in the community which it now has. He
was a positive quantity and a born leader of men.
Mr. Newman is the fourth member of our first
board whose death we have had to mourn since
the organization of the company. He will be
greatly missed by us as well as by his large circle
of associates in other lines of activity. In order
that we may give appropriate expression to these
our sentiments be it resolved that these words of
respect and appreciation be recorded on our
minutes. De Witt Van Buskirk, V. P.,

Chas. D. Noe, Sec.

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The following resolutions on Mr. New-
man's death from the Bayonne Building
Association, No. 2:

At an adjourned regular meeting of the
Bayonne Building Association, No. 2, held No-
vember 26. 1901, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted : Whereas through the death
of our late President, John Newman, we have
suffered the loss of one whose interest in the
welfare of this association has been evinced by
earnestness, perseverance and zeal in his efforts
to sustain its character and better its condition.
Therefore be it resolved that we place upon rec-
ord fitting evidence of our sorrow, at being de-
prived of all wise council and cheerful coopera-
tion, that we cherish the recollection of his labors
and profoundly acknowledge his many noble and
generous qualities. Resolved that with this tribute
of our esteem and respect we extend our heart-
felt sympathy to his family in their affliction and
be it further resolved that these resolutions be
spread in full upon the minutes and that a copy
of the same be sent to the family of our deceased
associate. R. H. Ten Brooch, V. P.,

Schuyler L. Mackie, Sec.

CARPENTER, John,

Journalist, Public Official.

The noble family of Carpenter from
which the Irish Earls of Tyrconnel have
descended, is of great antiquity in County
Hereford and other parts of England.
John Carpenter, the earliest known mem-
ber of the family, appears there as early
as 1303. In 1323 he was a member of par-
liament for the borough of Leskard, in
Cornwall, as two years afterwards was
Stephen Carpenter for Crediton, County
Devon. John Carpenter's son Richard,
born about 1335, had a son John who be-
came town clerk of London, and in turn
had a son John, born about 1410, whose
son William is the founder of the branch
of the family at present under considera-
tion.

This William Carpenter, son of John,
Jr., commonly known as William Car-
penter, of Homme, lived in the parish of
n j-a-17 2

I >il\\ vne, County Hereford, England, was
born about 1440, and died in 1520. Among
his children was a son James, who died in
1537, leaving a son John, who died three
years later, in 1540, whose son William,
named for his great-grandfather, was the
most prominent ancestor of the Tyrcon-
nel Carpenters, and the founder of the
Rehoboth branch of the Carpenter family
at present under consideration.

(I) William Carpenter, founder of the
American branch of the Tyrconnel Car-
penters, was born about 1540, and had
several children: 1. James, who inherited
the estate of his father. 2. Alexander,
born about 1560, a dissenter, who re-
moved to Leyden, Holland, and whose
youngest son, William Carpenter, of Cod-
ham, was one to whom was granted the
"Greyhound" arms. 3. William, referred
to below. 4. Richard, removed to Ames-
burg; his son William came to America
in 1636, settled in Providence with Roger
Williams, and became the progenitor of
the Providence branch of the Carpenter
family.

(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Carpenter, born in 1576, was a carpenter
by trade, and lived in the city of London.
He rented a tenement in Houndsditch in
1625 on a lease for forty-one years. In
1638, however, with his son William and
his daughter-in-law he came to America
in the ship "Bevis." He was registered
in Southampton, Long Island, but re-
turned home in the same vessel in which
he came over, leaving a son William in
this country to become the founder of this
branch of the family.

(III) William (3), son of William (2)
Carpenter, was born in England, 1605,
and died February 7, 1659, in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts. He was admitted free-
man of Weymouth, May 13, 1640, and
was representative of that town in 1641
and 1643. In 1641 he was constable, and

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was admitted an inhabitant of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, March 18, 1645, and was
representative for Rehoboth in the same
year. Governor Bradford, who married
his cousin Alice, manifested for him great
friendship, favoring him in all his meas-
ures in the criminal court, in fact, from
all their dealings and transactions, public
and private, which have been recorded
and come down to us, it is evident that
these two men were the closest of friends.
The legal business of the town or colony
seems to have been principally in the
hands of William Carpenter. He was one
of the committee who laid out the first lot
from Rehoboth, Dedham, and with others
was chosen to look after the interest of
the town, to hear and decide on the griev-
ances with regard to the division of land
by lots, and to represent the town in the
Criminal Court of Cambridge. In 1647
and again in 1655 he was one of the select-
men of the town. His will was dated
April 21, 1659, and proved February 7,
1669. By his wife Abigail, who died Feb-
ruary 22, 1687, he had seven children: 1.
John, is referred to below. 2. William,
born about 1631, died January 26, 1703;
married (first) Priscilla Bennett, (second)
Miriam Searles. 3. Joseph, born prob-
ably about 1633; married Margaret Sut-
ton, died May, 1675. 4. Hannah, born
April 3, 1640; married her cousin, Joseph
Carpenter, of Providence, Rhode Island.
5. Abiah, born April 9, 1643. 6. Abigail,
twin with Abiah, married John Titus, Jr.
7. Samuel, born probably 1644; died 1682;
married Sarah Readaway.

(IV) John, son of William (3) and
Abigail Carpenter, was born about 1628,
and died May 23, 1695. He came from
England with his father, and when young
went to Connecticut, and was there previ-
ous to 1746, when he must have been
about seventeen years old. For several
years he traveled about in Connecticut

working at the carpenter trade. In 1660
he bought land at Hempstead, Long
Island. He is mentioned in his father's
will as is also his son. In May, 1664, he
was made freeman of Connecticut, and in
1663 was chosen townsman of Hempstead.
He was generally known as Captain John
Carpenter, in virtue of his office as com-
mander of the Jamaica fusileers, which in
1673 was ordered to defend Fort James,
New York, against the fleet of the Prince
of Orange. John Carpenter was one of
the patentees of the town of Jamaica,
Long Island, under the Dongan patent of
1680, with Nehemiah Smith. He was one
of the committee to settle the Rev. John
Pruden over the church of Jamaica in
1676. His will, November 10, 1694, be-
gins: "I, John Carpenter now ancient
crazy in body and sound of mind." He
leaves his carpenter's tools to his sons.
He was a man of superior judgment, who
did much to assist in the building up of
the community. By his wife who was
probably Hannah Hope, he had seven
children: 1. John, who is referred to be-
low. 2. Hope, whose will was proved
March 23, 1712, whose wife's name was
Mary, and who was commissioned ensign
January 10, 1690, and with his brother
Samuel was captain of militia in 1700. 3.
William, born about 1662, died Febru-
ary 2 or 21, 1748 or 1749; married (first)
probably Sarah ; (second) Eliza-
beth . 4. Samuel, born about 1666.

5. Solomon, born about 1670. 6. Ruth,
married a Ludlam. 7. A daughter, name
unknown, who married a Rhodes.

(V) John (2), son of John (1) and
Hannah (Hope) Carpenter, was born in
Connecticut, about 1658. His will was
proved July 30, 1732. His residence was
Jamaica, Long Island. After November
22, 1703, he took the oath as captain of
troops at Jamaica. He was assessed in
1683 at £~S. His wife's name was Mary.

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Children: I. Nehemiah, born about 1685,
died April 25, 1821 ; married Elizabeth

. 2. John, is referred to below. 3.

Solomon, born about 1686, died 1772. 4.
Joseph, born about 1687; married prob-
ably Phebe, daughter of Wait Smith. 5.
Increase, born about 1688, died about
1776; married a Bergin. 6. Mary. 7.
Hannah. 8. Susanna. 9. Phebe.

(VI) John (3), son of John (2) and
Mary Carpenter, was born about 1685.
He was called "John the Sheriff," to dis-
tinguish him from other Carpenters bear-
ing his own name. The title was given
him because he served as sheriff of Orange
county, New York. At one time he de-
clined. Shortly after his marriage he re-
moved from Long Island to Goshen, Xew
York, where he died. His wife married
for her second husband, Mr. Thurston.
By his wife Ruth Coe he had nine children :

1. Ruth, born about 1720; married (first)
Ephraim Marston ; (second) Peter Stagg.

2. Daniel, born about 1720, died March
10, 1790; married Susan Thompson. 3.
Increase. 4. Isaac, married (first) Susan-
na (Horton) Little; (second) Susanna
( McKinney) Thompson. 5. Temperance,
married Jeremiah Curtis. 6. John, re-
ferred to below. 7. Benjamin, born about
1750, died 181 1 ; married Eunice, sister to
J. Stewart. 8. Moses. 9. Susanna, died
March 17, 1790; married a Howell.

(VII) John (4), son of John (3) and
Ruth (Coe) Carpenter, born June 3, 1730
(or February, 1745, according to another
account), died February, 1800. He is said
to have represented Orange county in the
Colonial Assembly in 1778, also at one
time to have been a judge of the same
county. He is sometimes called "John the
Distiller." He moved to Washington
town, north of Albany, New York, and
went into the distillery business, which in
those days was considered highly honor-
able, and accumulated much property. He

was a man of knowledge, held many im-
portant offices, and was at one time a
member of the Assembly of New York.
He was a successful and prominent busi-
ness man. January 31, 1779, he married
Abigail, born August 29, 1758, died April
21, 1 841, daughter of Benjamin and Louise
(Cory) Moore, who survived her husband
and after his death married Hezekiah N.
Woodruff. This was his second marriage.
His first wife, name supposed to have
been Frances, bore him three children.
The remaining nine were the issue of the
second marriage. These children were:
1. Margaret, born April 30, 1773. 2. Eli-
nor, born October 27, 1775. 3. James,
baptized September 21, 1777. 4. Cynthia.
born May 23, 1782; married Philip C.
Schuyler. 5. John Coe, referred to below.
6. Abigail, born August 21, 1787; mar-
ried John Sherwood. 7. Susan, born 1795,
married Truman Hart. 8. Benjamin, born
April 4, 1783, married Charlotte B. Alden.
9. Mary, bora July 28, 1789, married John
C. Wynans. 10. Temperance, born June
25, 1791 : died August 2, 1831 ; married
Sands Higinbothan. 11. Isaac born Sep-
tember 19, 1793: married (first) Cynthia
Samantha Goodwin ; (second) Emeline
Woodward. 12. Elizabeth, born July 19,
1798; married a Leonard.

(VIII) John Coe, son of John and Abi-
gail (Moore) Carpenter, was born May
4. 1784. He lived at first at Windham,
Greene county, New York, and later in
Fayettesville or Manlius, Onondaga coun-
ty, New York. By his first wife

Mead, he had three children. In 1807 he
married (second) Hannah Babcock, of
Coventry. Connecticut, who bore him one
more child. Children: I. John, referred
to below. 2. Eliza, born January 1, 1801,
married Asahel Peck. 3. Cynthia, born
September 21, 1803, married a Ken-
ney. 4. Sands Coe, born about 1815, mar-
ried Marv Clark.

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(IX) John, eldest child of John Coe
Carpenter by his first wife, was born at
Windham, Greene county, New York, De-
cember 13, 1805, died in Woodbury, New
Jersey, July 21, 1891. He took to the
printing trade while yet a boy, securing
an apprenticeship in the office of the
"Herkimer Herald." He became its act-
ing editor during his apprenticeship, and
at the age of nineteen, differing with the
opinion of the editor as to the presidential
candidates, he bought the balance of his
apprenticeship and the paper with it, and
transferred his support from Adams to
Jackson. The people of Herkimer coun-
ty in the election of 1824 sustained the
cause of the new editor. In 1826 Mr.
Carpenter was induced to remove to Os-
wego, New York, where he helped to
establish the Oswego "Palladium," which
is yet prosperous and influential and one
of the oldest Democratic papers in New
York State. The greater part of John
Carpenter's younger life was spent in
Oswego, which he saw grow from a little
village and become a city of considerable
commercial importance to the country.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Carpen-
ter took the first iron printing press used
in Oswego from Albany, New York, on
a sleigh. After about twenty years labor
on the "Palladium" (during which time
it did good service for his party being the
paper which in the 1840 campaign got
from General Harrison and published a
famous letter in which he confessed that
he had a political committee of three to
keep his political conscience and tell what
his opinions were on public issue), Mr.
Carpenter sold the printing office in order
to accept the clerkship of the county, to
which he had been elected, but he after-
wards for many years contributed to the
political columns of the paper.

Throughout his life he was a strict ad-
herent to the old party of Jefferson. His

first vote for President was for Andrew
Jackson, and his last for Grover Cleve-
land, and in his old age he expressed him-
self glad to know that for more than half
a century he had never failed to discharge
his duty as a citizen in voting at every
election. He removed to New Jersey a few
years before his death, as he was warned
by a second attack of pneumonia that he
could no longer stand the Lake Ontario
winters, but he so timed his removal as-
to cast his vote in New York State and
become a resident of New Jersey the
same day. In 1876, when he had voted
for the one-hundredth time, he was elect-
ed by acclamation to represent the Os-
wego district in the Democratic State
convention of New York, with a very
complimentary resolution by the county
convention. He was as unselfish as he
was devoted to the party of his prefer-
ence. When he did not like its candidates
he supported them for their cause. When
his own views failed to prevail he prompt-
ly accepted those of the majority as dis-
tinct from the regular council of the
party. In no other way he believed
could a party and its principles be
sustained and its policy carried to tri-
umph for the good and glory of the coun-
try. From 1852 to 1856 he was a mem-
ber of the New York Democratic com-
mittee. He was a staunch friend and ad-
herent of President Van Buren. When
in 1848 Mr. Van Buren started his own
personal party, Mr. Carpenter stood al-
most alone in his section in support of
the regular ticket of the New York con-
vention. In fact, Mr. Nathan Robbins,
then collector of the port of Oswego, was
the only other person at the time in the
Democratic county who with Mr. Car-
penter supported the regular electoral
ticket. Oswego after this used to be a
Democratic county, and Mr. Carpenter
was several times elected a member of its

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board of supervisors and took a promi-
nent and noble part in the county man-
agement.

He was as devoted to domestic duties
and to his private affairs as he was to his
duties as a citizen. He won warm and
universal esteem as a neighbor. He was
unselfishly and untiringly active as long
as his eye and hand had strength to labor.
Only a few weeks before his death he had
helped effectively in the office of the
"Gloucester County Democrat." the paper
of his son James. The last eight years
of his life were spent in comfort at his
son's home in Woodbury, New Jersey.

John Carpenter married (first) August
JO, 1X28, Sarah L., daughter of Andrew
Ferrill, M. !>.. of Herkimer, New York.
who died September 14, 1844. having
borne him eight children. January 3,
1848, he married (second) Mary, daugh-
ter of Judge Edmund Hawkes, of Oswego,
New York, born December 16. 1821. who
bore him seven children.

BEEKMAN, George C,

Lawyer, Antiquarian, Historian.

George Crawford Beekman was a de-
scendant of Maarten Beeckman, who died
at Albany, in 1676. His father, Jacob T.
B. Beekman, graduated at Union College,
Schenectady ; entered Theological Semi-
nary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and
was licensed as a minister of Reformed
Dutch church in 1826. He was called the
same year as pastor of the Dutch church
then located in what was the old town-
ship of Middletown, Monmouth county,
but afterwards taken off to form what is
now Holmdel township. Here he served
ten years, content, as he once remarked
to his friend, Rev. Garret C. Schenck, with
"stipends sufficient to pay the board of
myself and my horse." He also did con-
siderable missionary service through

Monmouth county, which then included
the county of Ocean. He rode about on
horseback, preaching in school houses
and sometimes in barns. In 1836 he sev-
ered his connections with the Holmdel
Dutch church and took up his permanent
residence in the village of Middletown,
where he resided the rest of his life. The
first Baptist church in what is now the
State of New Jersey had been organized
in this place. The population of English
descent were strong believers in baptism
by immersion. Even in the coldest win-
ters they would cut holes through the ice
of the nearest mill pond to baptize their
converts. The Dutch church at Holm-
del, then called the Middletown Dutch
Church, was five miles distant by the pub-
lic road from Middletown village. With
the good will of four or five farmers of
Dutch descent, named Hendrickson, Luy-
ster and Couwenhoven, residing on farms
ovt r a mile west from Middletown vil-
lage, it was resolved to purchase a lot
and erect a church in this village. Many
people ridiculed the idea of building a
church when there was no congregation
to fill it or support a minister ; others said,
"the people here are all Baptists and they
will not attend a church where people are
sprinkled with a few drops of water."
Undisturbed by the clamors, Mr. Beek-
man went on. A lot was bought and a
church was built. He gave freely of his
time, labor and means. He even bor-
rowed $500 on his individual note, to pay
some of the final indebtedness. When
the edifice was completed, Mr. Beekman
gave public notice that he would preach
every Sunday, and invited the people to
attend, assuring all of a welcome. At-
tracted more by curiosity than piety, a
large number of people attended, for
there was nothing to pay. Not only on
that Sunday but for nearly three years
following, he preached without any salary

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or other perquisites. In that time he had
gathered a congregation able and willing
to support an unmarried man as pastor.
Mr. Beekman secured a young and single
man named Crawford to serve as their
first regularly installed pastor at a stated
salary. During the three years Mr. Beek-
man preached, he had the care of conduct-
ing a farm and other business. In the
year 1837 he lost an infant daughter.
Three years before, his first born, a son,
named Edwin, died. The graves of those
two children, with headstones giving
their names and dates of death, may be
seen to-day in the yard behind this
church. They were among the first in-
terments in this burying-ground. Mr.
Beekman's funeral was held in this
church, and was the only thing he ever
received for his sacrifices and services.
It was, however, now too small to seat
the crowd of people who turned out to
pay their last respects to the memory of
"Dominie Beekman," as he was generally
called. Mr. Beekman, later in life,
preached many years at Port Washing-
ton, as Oceanic was then called. He also
preached at one time for a church in New
York City and elsewhere. He never re-
fused to preach the funerals of the col-
ored people when requested.

He married, February 12, 1833, Ann
(born February 22, 1801, died May 18,
1876), daughter of George Crawford and
Eleanor Schanck, his second wife.

George Crawford Beekman was born
July 2, 1839, m tne same dwelling where
his mother was born and had always re-
sided, at west end of Middletown village ;
this house was accidentally burned down
in 1892. At age of fifteen he entered the
freshman class of Princeton College, and
graduated in 1859, receiving the degrees
of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
in course. He entered as a student of law
in the office of Joel Parker, of Freehold.

His first vote was cast the same year for
the Douglas electors on the presidential
ticket, erasing four electors who repre-
sented the ultra-southern pro-slavery
Democracy and the "Know Nothing"
party. He did this without knowing that
a majority of the New Jersey Democrats
would vote the same way, and was there-
fore surprised that these three electors
were the only ones chosen. When South
Carolina passed her act of secession, he
wrote an article for the Republican paper
at Freehold, now known as the "Mon-
mouth Inquirer," signed "A Jackson
Democrat," and expressing his views as
to the result if they were permitted to dis-
solve the Union peaceably. This article
attracted considerable attention, and
evoked a savage criticism from James S.
Yard in the "Monmouth Democrat."

Mr. Beekman was licensed by the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey in 1863 as an
attorney at law, and three years later as a
counsellor. Joel Parker, elected Governor
of New Jersey in 1863, permitted Mr.
Beekman to use his law office and library
at Freehold during his term. In the win-
ter of 1869 the Legislature passed an act
authorizing the appointment of a "law
judge" for Monmouth county, with an
annual salary of $1,800 ; the act prohibited
the incumbent from, practice of law dur-
ing his term. Mr. Beekman was the first
judge to occupy this position in Mon-
mouth county. The first two years he
was fully occupied in the trials of the
accumulated cases and such new busi-
ness as came in. the third year he had
only the new business, and this did not
occupy the courts over two months of
continuous time during the year. As he
was debarred from practice of law and
had no other business, he spent consider-
able time searching the records of Mon-
mouth county and gained considerable
information, showing where the first set-

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tiers in Monmouth came from, how the
early courts were constituted and who
were the judges, etc. ; also the disputes
between the Scotch and English settlers,
and other facts of interest. Some of these
researches he gave to James S. Yard, who
published them from week to week in his
newspaper. This was purely a labor of
love as Mr. Beekman received no com-
pensation and expected none. At a later
date Mr. Yard had these articles, with
others written by Hon. Edwin Salter, and
some compiled by himself, bound to-
gether in books, entitled "Old Times in
Old Monmouth," and put on the market
at five dollars per copy.

During the three years Mr. Beekman
served as judge he tried many civil and
criminal cases ; few were carried to the
higher courts for review ; none was re-
versed or modified, but were all affirmed.
Becoming weary of the idleness of this
office, Mr. Beekman resigned in the win-
ter of 1873. He at once resumed the
practice of law at Freehold. During his
forty years of practice at Freehold, he
tried many civil and criminal cases,
some of which attracted great public in-
terest and involved important interests.
The New Jersey Law and Equity Re-
ports show some of these cases, but the
great majority were never carried out of
the county courts of Monmouth. In 1876
Mr. Beekman was a delegate to the presi-
dential convention of the National Demo-
cratic party held at St. Louis. He con-
sidered the convention as characterized
by want of deliberation, stifling of dis-
cussion, and unfair management, which
changed Mr. Beekman's opinions on the
subject of "Democracy." Then and there
he resolved never to take part in another
Democratic convention in the county or
State under party call. All his former
ideas of Democracy were revolutionized
and upset. In 1878 he took part in a

county convention in Freehold, and by
which he was nominated for State Sena-
tor, and he was also nominated by the
Republican convention, which was in ses-
sion at the same time. After organiza-
tion, on motion of Edward Hartshorne, a
committee of seven were appointed to
draft resolutions expressing the views of
the conventions. Mr. Beekman was
named as chairman of this committee, and
drew the resolutions, which were re-
ported and unanimously adopted. Mr.
Beekman was elected by a majority of
over five hundred. For the first time
since 1850, the regular nominee of the
Democratic party in Monmouth county
was defeated. The senate journal of New
Jersey and other legislative documents
for years 1879-80-81 show that he faith-
fully carried out to the best of his ability
the platform of the convention. He was
invited by representatives of both parties
to take part in their caucus, but he re-
fused to enter either. Mr. Garret Hobart,
who served as Senator from Passaic coun-
ty and was afterwards elected Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States, wrote to some
of his Republican friends in Monmouth
county some years after Senator Beek-
man's term had expired, that no one dur-
ing his term could have determined by
his votes what party he belonged to.

In 1879 bills were introduced in the
Legislature to give the justices of the
Supreme Court and Secretary of State a
fixed yearly salary instead of fees. This
was the beginning of that legislation
which finally did away with the fee sys-
tem in New Jersey. It was opposed bit-
terly, and nearly twenty years passed be-
fore it could be extended to all the State
and county offices. The fight was hard
and bitter. Mr. Beekman was obliged to
draw himself all the reform bills he intro-
duced. The first year he got through an
amendment to the bribery act. allowing

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one of the parties to the crime to testify
against the other, and if he told the truth
granting him immunity. He also intro-
duced a bill to repeal the act requiring the
session laws to be published in the news-
papers of the State, at an annual expense
of some $70,000 to the taxpayers. An-
other bill Senator Beekman introduced,
to repeal act requiring sheriffs sales of
land to be published in two newspapers,
and expense of the printing paid out of
the property of the debtor, who is sold
out. Mr. Beekman also introduced sev-
eral bills, concerning his own county,
which became laws, such as the act creat-
ing the "Township of Neptune ;" and the
act to appropriate $10,000 toward erect-
ing a monument on the battlefield of Mon-
mouth, which also passed. It was the
first monument erected in New Jersey to
honor the memory of our Revolutionary
fathers. He also voted for the law, giv-
ing justices jurisdiction of civil suits to

Committee on State Library for year
1880," among the legislative documents).
Mr. Beekman's term as Senator ended
in 1882. Mr. Murphy served in the lower
house one term. In 1882 the partnership
of Beekman & Murphy was amicably dis-
solved, after an existence of eight years.
From this time until he removed from
Freehold to Red Bank, in 1903, Mr. Beek-
man conducted the law business alone.
For forty years he practiced law at the
county seat of Monmouth and during this
time, as the court records will show, he
never sued any one on his own account.
If his clients failed to pay, he let the claim
go. During those years he contributed
to the "Monmouth Democrat" and "Mon-
mouth Inquirer," then the only news-
papers published in Freehold, many ar-
ticles on political questions, some tales
founded on local tradition, and also facts
relating to the early history of Monmouth
county. These last he gathered from the
old records in the countv clerk's office

amount of $200 ; also the law forbidding and from old documents and papers which

suits on bonds in law suits, when mort-
gage given to secure the same, was being
foreclosed in the Court of Chancery. He
also drew and introduced a bill cutting
down costs of the foreclosure of mort-
gages one-half, when the amount due did
not exceed five hundred dollars.

In 1880 Mr. Hobart, president of the
Senate, appointed Air. Beekman chairman
of the joint committee of the two houses
on State library. He carefully examined
the books and found it was almost wholly
a law library and used principally by the
Trenton lawyers and judges. He drew a
report recommending the purchase of
standard works useful to other profes-
sions and occupations, also the collection
of all local histories, pamphlets, etc., re-
lating to any part of New Jersey. This
report was agreed to and signed by the
other members. (See "Report of Joint

had been treasured up in some of the old
families of the county. James S. Yard,
owner and editor of the "Monmouth Dem-
ocrat," included part of these contribu-
tions in the book compiled and published
by him entitled "Old Times in Old Mon-
mouth." This work was purely a "labour
of love," Mr. Beekman never asked or ex-
pected any compensation. At a later date
the "Freehold Transcript," a third news-
paper, was established at Freehold. A
series of articles on some of the "Early
Hollanders" who settled in Monmouth
county was published in the weekly issues
of this paper, and extending through
some two years. The owner and editor
of the "Transcript" also issued one hun-
dred and twenty-five copies in book form,
for which he charged five dollars per
copy ; he generously turned over one-half
of these receipts to the compiler. This

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was the only pecuniary reward Mr. Beek-
man ever received for his literary efforts.

Mr. Beekman married, at Freehold, No-
vember 6. 1877, Laura B. Alston, a de-
scendant of the Alstons who resided at or
near Woodbridge, Middlesex county, New
Jersey, prior to the Revolutionary War
During the war or after one of this fam-
ily resided on Staten Island. His son,
David Alston, with his wife and tw 1
removed from Staten Island. 1>\ way of
Tottenvilfe, over to New Jersey, in 1S15.
He took up his residence at Spotswood.
Here he remained several years, having
two more sons and three daughters born
at this last place. From here he removed
to Juliustown, Burlington county. New
Jersey, where he lived the remainder of
his life. One of his sons. Abraham D.
Alston, married, in 1839, Caroline Bare-
ford, and had ten children — five sons and
five daughters. His fourth daughter,
Laura B., was born March 2. 1852, and
married Mr. Beekman, as above stated.
Three sons — Alston, Jacob Ten Broeck
and Edwin Laurens, — and one daughter,
named Anne Crawford, were born. The
last died December 16. 1902, at Free-
hold, was buried in Beekman plot, at
Fairview cemetery. The eldest son mar-
ried Matilda, daughter of John Craig, and
engaged in practice of law at Red Bank.
The second son, Jacob Ten Broeck, re-
sided with his parents. The third and
youngest son, Edwin Laurens, resided on
Beekman's farm, at Middletown. This
farm has been in the family over a cen-
tury, and is generally considered one of
the most productive in that vicinity. The
railroads from New York to Red Bank
pass over the north end of it.

Mr. Beekman was a member of Olive
Branch Lodge, No. 16, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, at Freehold, New Jer-
sey. He served four years as worshipful
master, and at his death was the oldest

pasl master of this lodge. Mr. Beekman
removed from Freehold to Red Bank in
1903, taking up his permanent residence
at No. 54 Shrewsbury avenue, on the
banks of the Shrewsbury river.

HOPE, Washington L.,

Man of Enterprise.

Reuben Hope emigrated with his two
brothers, Cornelius and Thomas, from
England to America, early in 1800. The
family was formerly French, where the
name was L'Esperance, and they were
banished from France with other Hugue-
nots. Reuben Hope was born in 1774,
and after his arrival in New York he be-
came one of the prominent old time mer-
chants of that city, his business being
shipper and importer. He died in 1854.

When the Marquis de Lafayette came
on his official visit to this country in Au-
gust, 1824, at the invitation of the United
States government, Mr. Hope was one of
the officials appointed to welcome him to
New York City, and his youngest child
being born at this time, he commemorated
the event by naming him Washington
Lafayette. Reuben married Catherine,
daughter of Abner Taylor, a member of
the New York family of the name, and
closely allied to many of the old and
prominent colonial Dutch and other fam-
ilies. Her father himself was a Revolu-
tionary soldier, and had been especially
commanded for his efficient services to
his country in the blockading of the Hud-
son river near West Point, and also in
the counties of Rockland, Orange and
Ulster, New York. Children of Reuben
and Catherine (Taylor) Hope: 1. Wil-
liam, a farmer and large real estate oper-
ator. 2. George Taylor, for many years
president of the Continental Fire Insur-
ance Company of New York City. 3.
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a United States customs inspector, inven-
tor and farmer. 4. Mary, married John
Carpenter, merchant. 5. Catherine, mar-
ried Charles Edward Steane, M. D. 6.
Frances Matilda, married Benjamin Pike,
Jr., the noted manufacturer of philosophi-
cal and scientific instruments, and pub-
lisher of books on those subjects. 7. Cor-
nelius, a merchant in New York City. 8.
Rev. James Malcolm, a Baptist minister
of Brooklyn, Long Island. 9. Washing-
ton Lafayette, referred to below. 10-11.
Two children died in infancy.

Washington Lafayette, son of Reuben
and Catherine (Taylor) Hope, was born
in New York City, August 4, 1824, and
died at his residence on Sycamore ave-
nue, Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, February 13, 1899, in his seventy-
fifth year. After receiving his education
in the schools of New York City he en-
tered on a business career, but being a
studious and thoughtful man he became
an exceedingly well read scholar. At
first he engaged in mercantile business in
New York City and in Orange county,
and became a contractor for materials
used in building and equipping railroads.
In November, 1844, he was appointed and
commissioned major and quartermaster
in the Twenty-eighth Regiment of New
York State, and served several years
when the militia of the country was pre-
paring to take part in the war with Mex-
ico. Later he engaged in farming in
Rockland county, New York, and was
one of the organizers of the Rockland
County Agricultural Society, of which
until his removal to Shrewsbury, New
Jersey, he was one of the officers. In
1865 he removed to Allendale, in Shrews-
bury township, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, to property which had descended
to his wife through her parents. Mr.
Hope was for a long time lecturer for the
New Jersey State Grange, and as State

lecturer for the Order of Good Templars,
he delivered many addresses, not only
throughout New Jersey, but also in other
States, and in a number of other cases his
services as an orator were in great de-
mand, as he was a highly instructive and
eloquent public speaker. He was also
Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the State
of New Jersey, and an officer of the Right
Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars
of America. In politics he was a mem-
ber of the Republican party from its first
organization, and he was in a great meas-
ure independent both in principle and
practice, adhering more to what he be-
lieved to be the spirit than the letter of
his party platform, and when needful re-
forms could not otherwise be brought
about, he had no hesitation in acting with
a third party. He was zealous for the
abolition of the liquor traffic, and made
diligent and partially successful efforts
for legislation favoring local option, and
was always very active during the cam-
paigns when local option was an issue.
He was a candidate for Congress on the
Prohibition ticket when the late General
Clinton B. Fisk was a candidate for Gov-
ernor of New Jersey, and at that time and
also in 1878, when he was a candidate for
Congress in the Third New Jersey dis-
trict on the national independent ticket,
he received a very large vote, which was
regarded as a high personal compliment
to him. In the different reform move-
ments outside the Republican party in
which Mr. Hope's high sense of public
and civic duty led him to engage, he was
intimately associated with General Fisk,
the late John G. Drew, Benjamin Urner,
the venerable Peter Cooper, General Ben-
jamin F. Butler, and many other promi-
nent men who believed certain reforms in
State and national government were nec-
essary for the welfare of this country.
Mr. Hope was an Abolitionist, and ren-

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dered efficient services in the campaigns
of i860 and 1864 for the election of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and in 1868 and 1872 for
the election of General Grant to the presi-
dency. During the Civil War he was
most patriotic in behalf of the Union and
outspoken against disloyal persons in
Rockland county, New York, and when
the uprising which culminated in the
draft riots in New York City occurred, he
armed his family and employees to pro-
tect himself against attacks which had
been threatened because of his active
loyalty, and his refusal to surrender two
old negroes who had been in his employ
for many years as family servants. Al-
though his offer to serve in the Union
army was not accepted because of a slight
physical disability, he labored zealously
and successfully in aiding to stop the
spirit of secession, and induced many
who were at first against the cause and
policies of the government, to become
earnest supporters of the Union cause.
As he expressed it in a pamphlet he pub-
lished at the time, he persuaded many
men so to act that "not a single star shall
be taken from the flag of our Union." He
was a devoted husband and father, highly
respected for his sterling character and
exemplary life, and he and his estimable
wife were zealously engaged in many
good works, being particularly active in
religious and temperance work, and en-
tertaining at their home many prominent
persons who were intimately associated
with them in their labors. From 1855
both Mr. and Mrs. Hope were members
of the Baptist church, and for many years
each served faithfully in various impor-
tant offices in the churches and Sunday
schools, Mr. Hope being trustee, deacon
and Sunday school superintendent for
more than thirty years. He married, Sep-
tember 6, 1848. Helen Cobb, daughter of
George L. and Ann Cocks Allen, the cere-

mony being performed by Rev. Henry
Finch, rector of Christ Church, Shrews-
bury, at the bride's home, which Mrs.
Hope and her ancestors owned for over
two hundred and thirty years, and where
Mr. and Mrs. Hope themselves lived since
1865. Here they celebrated their golden
wedding in September, 1898, and here Mr.
Hope 1 lied after a two weeks' illness from
pneumonia, and Mrs. Hope died there
December 6, 1902.

HOPPER, Benjamin W.,

Veteran of Civil War.

lienjamin W. Hopper, son of John A.
and Keziah (Westervelt) Hopper, was
born in Bergen county, New Jersey, near
Ilackensack, May 15, 1839. He was
brought up in Newfoundland, Morris
county, 1840-55, where he received his
school training. He was apprenticed to
the trade of carpenter in Newark in 1856,
and in spring of 1861 arranged to go to
Macon, Georgia, as a master mechanic in
carpentering and building, he having ac-
cepted a flattering offer for a master
builder in that southern city. The out-
break of the Civil War, however, changed
the plan and the whole current of his
future life. He went south as a soldier
instead of as a master carpenter, and on
September 1, 1861, was in the ranks of
the Union army as a private in the Ninth
New Jersey Volunteer Regiment Lieu-
tenant Colonel Charles A. Hickman. He
was assigned to Company E, and in De-
cember, 1861, was promoted to sergeant,
lie went with the regiment to North Car-
olina in the Burnside expedition, and at
Roanoke Island his regiment was second
in line of battle in the Second Brigade
under command of General Jesse L.
Reno, the army being under command of
Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside. Ser-
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Roanoke Island when the troops were
landed under cover of the gunboats, and
as General Foster in command of the
First Brigade had awaited the arrival of
< ieneral Reno with the Second Brigade
no fighting occurred between the two as-
sembled armies until Reno's arrival to
take his place on the left with the Twen-
ty-first Massachusetts, which had the
right of the line, followed by the Ninth
New Jersey and the Twenty-first New
York, and the three regiments began an
effective attack, turning the Confederate
right by marching through a thicket of
briers, shrubs and swamp land, almost
impenetrable. This was February 8,
1862, and after the capture of the fort,
Foster and Reno pursued the enemy to
the northern extremity of the island,
where an unconditional surrender of the
entire Confederate force was effected.
After a well-earned rest the army pro-
ceeded to the attack on New Berne, which
place was reached by transports under
guard of the gunboats. Here again Reno
had the extreme left and made his favor-
ite swing to the rear of the Confederate
right, and the enemy found themselves
between two effective fires and broke and
fled to the town, burning the bridges as
they retreated, and in that way escaped
capture. The town of New Berne, North
Carolina, was occupied by Burnside and
his army in the afternoon of March 14,
1862. Burnside sums up the victory as
follows : "The Burnside Expedition has
passed into history ; its records we can
be proud of. No body of troops ever had
more difficulties to overcome in the same
space of time. Its perils were both by
land and water. Defeat never befell it.
Its experience was a succession of honor-
able victories." The gallantry of Sergeant
Hopper attracted the attention of Colonel
Hickman, who promptly promoted him
to a lieutenancy and subsequently made

him captain of the company. He followed
the fortunes of his regiment through the
entire war. His sword hand was disabled
while leading an advance on the abattis
protecting Fort Darling, May 14, 1864;
at the terrific combat at Drury's Bluff,
May 16, 1864, he was wounded in the
breast and arm and was ordered to the
rear by Regimental Surgeon Gillette. He
persisted in remaining with his command,
his bleeding arm supported by a sling
which the surgeon extemporized, and he
sought the aid and comfort of the hospi-
tal only after he had secured for his deci-
mated command a position of compara-
tive safety. Such a commander could not
fail to secure the universal respect and
love of every member of the company and
the esteem of every member of the regi-
ment. In the final campaign of the Caro-
linas after the fall of Wilmington, North
Carolina, and near the close of the war,
his regiment was, with a division of the
Twenty-third Army Corps under com-
mand of Major-General Cox, placed in
command of the Beaufort district The
Ninth New Jersey was in the Second
Brigade under Colonel James Stewart,
the regiment being commanded by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Samuel Hufby. The
duties of this column were to open the
railway from New Berne to Goldsboro.
Sergeant Hopper had fought with his
regiment at New Berne early in the war,
and now at its close the fortunes of war
carried him back to familiar places, and
after the successful battle of New Berne,
March 8-10, 1865, the Union army occu-
pied Kinston, North Carolina, March 14,
and reached Goldsboro on the 21st. He
led his company into Goldsboro, North
Carolina, March 21, 1865, and secured the
capitulation of the citizens and few troops
who had not fled. The commander of the
Ninth New Jersey in recognition of his
valor and daring in capturing the city,

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detailed his company as provost guard,
and Captain Hopper was made inspector-
general of the Twenty-third Army Corps,
the onerous duties of which position were
so well performed that he received spe-
cial commendation from General Sher-
man and Generals Cox and Schofield.

Upon his return home, Captain Hopper,
through the kind offices of his old com-
mander, now General Hickman, was ap-
pointed a conductor on the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey, and he held that re-
sponsible position together with that of
general freight agent of the road for over
forty years, becoming personally known
to every regular patron of the road. He
died in Newark, New Jersey, April 18,
1906.

His brother, Henry Hopper, was also
a veteran of the Civil War. He was
eighteen years of age and he left the plow
in the furrow and hastened to join his
brother, Benjamin W., who was recruit-
ing volunteers to fill up Company E of
the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers. He
followed the fortunes of his brother and
the Ninth New Jersey at Hatteras, when
he was detailed to serve on the gunboat
fleet that bombarded the fort on Roanoke
Island. In the afternoon before the event-
ful day on which the forts were captured,
he urged strongly to be allowed to go
ashore with the launch carrying howit-
zers to the scene of the attack, and thus
became temporarily attached to his regi-
ment and took part in both the battles
of Roanoke Island and New Berne. His
brother, then a private, assisted in drag-
ging and firing the howitzers, the only
artillery ashore at Roanoke Island, until
after the victory had been won. After
New Berne had capitulated, and seeing
ahead no more gun boat fighting, he pro-
cured his discharge from the naval serv-
ice, and from that time until the end of
the war was with his regiment and his

brother who so gallantly commanded
Company E. He was mustered out with
the regiment in July, 1865, and again took
his place at the plow and he continued on
the farm until 1873, when he went to
Newark and obtained employment there.
In 1878 he was appointed on the police
force as patrolman. He soon made his
services to the city and the department
so valuable that he was promoted through
the grades to captain of the precinct and
thence to chief of the police force of the
city of Newark, from which honorable
position, especially honored by his unim-
peachable character and service, he re-
signed.

BAER, Jacob F.,

Pioneer Silk Manufacturer.

Jacob Frederick Baer, son of Frederick
Jacob and Anna (Weibel) Baer, was born
in the village of Beckton, in the canton of
Basle, Switzerland, November 27, 1836,
and died at Paterson, New Jersey, No-
vember 29, 1905. He attended the schools
of his native town, and immediately after,
while yet a boy, was taught the trade of
silk making by his father, who moved from
Arburg to Aargau, a nearby hamlet and
a part of Arburg. After thoroughly mas-
tering every detail of the trade under his
father's careful tutorage, he decided at
the age of twenty years to emigrate to
America with the hope of finding a broad-
er and more remunerative field for his
skill and labor. He came to New York,
where for a time he worked at his trade,
and later became a member of the firm of
E. Walther & Company, of New York
City, where he continued up to 1863, when
the firm of E. Walther & Company were
looking for a new field in which to en-
gage in manufacturing to the best ad-
vantage. They decided to come to Pater-
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silk industry of the country, and here Mr.
Baer finally engaged in the manufactur-
ing business for himself with the little
money he had saved by dint of simple
and frugal tastes taught by his sturdy
and honest ancestors, starting with a half
dozen small looms. He began to prosper,
and by his careful and conscientious man-
agement the plant increased. He intro-
duced the first ribbon loom in Paterson,
and was the first in America to make
satin back velvet ribbons. He was in a
fair way to become the largest silk manu-
facturer in the country when the disas-
trous panic of 1873 swept the country, and
with a number of other silk makers he
was among those who suffered, his plant
being entirely wiped out and his entire
savings lost in the failure. At the time
he was located in the Crescent mill, on
what is now Belmont avenue, and was
succeeded by the firm of Sterett Ryle &
Murphy. Nothing daunted by this failure,
Mr. Baer again determined to try his re-
sources of energy, brain and thought, and
in the meantime he secured positions as
superintendent of the Pioneer Silk Com-
pany, and later with William Strange &
Company, which position he held several
years. In 1887 he resigned his position
of superintendent, and resumed the manu-
facture of silk ribbons on his own ac-
count, and was instrumental in found-
ing and establishing the Helvetia Silk
Mill, which company was incorporated in
March, 1887, and soon grew into a flour-
ishing concern. He became the head of
this concern, with branches on Van Hou-
ten street, and Lehighton, Pennsylvania,
and which to-day are the most conspicu-
ous of the industrial establishments of
Paterson. The success of the firm was
due to the untiring energy, honesty and
executive ability of its founder. The
plant has been enlarged at various times
in order to meet the constantly increas-

ing demands of its products. About 1904
an addition was made to the plant that
increased the output about one-third.
There are about two hundred and twenty
ribbon looms in the mill, and the concern
employs about three hundred and twenty-
five operatives. The present officers are:
Frederick A. Baer, president, and Ralph
Baer, secretary. Jacob Frederick Baer
always enjoyed a reputation for liberality,
especially in his dealings with his em-
ployees, and seldom if ever has any dif-
ferences occurred with them. He was a
man of high ideals and probity of char-
acter, and noted for his kindness and gen-
erosity to all with whom he came in con-
tact. With his friends he was generous
to a fault. He was always an energetic
and enterprising citizen, actively engaged
until his death, being the oldest silk man-
ufacturer in Paterson.

Jacob Frederick Baer married, in New
York City, 1858, Louisa Blattner, born
September 26, 1838, at Kuttingen, Canton
Aargau, Switzerland, died at Paterson,
New Jersey, July 4, 1904, daughter of
Jacob and Anna Blattner. Their sons —
Ralph, William A. and Louis G. — ;nher-
ited the father's tastes and abilities, and
followed in his occupation.

MASON, Victor Louis,

Man of Affairs. Enterprising Citizen.

Though not yet in his prime when his
life came to its sudden end, Victor Louis
Mason had already gained a recognized
position in the business world of two con-
tinents. In his early career as private
secretary to high government officials, he
formed many close and lasting friendships
with men eminent in public life, notably
John Hay, General Russell A. Alger and
General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A.

His business life was an important one,
and just prior to his death he had advan-

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tageously placed in London a large issue
of the bonds of an American company.
He was a social favorite, and a well
known member of leading clubs in dif-
ferent cities. In his adopted home,
Passaic, New Jersey, he became a leader,
and as president of the Board of Trade
was foremost in all movements for the
upbuilding of the city. He was of Eng-
lish and French ancestry, and combined
with the solid qualities of the former, the
vivacity and dash of the latter. His pa-
ternal ancestors were early settlers in
Virginia; his mother was of French
parentage, a direct descendant of Pepin
le Hroef. Thoroughly equipped through
inheritance, education and personality,
he met with no failures in his life work,
and will be remembered as a man who
achieved much, even though his life was
a comparatively short one.

Victor Louis Mason was born in Wash-
ington, District of Columbia, December 9,
1870, and died in London, England, May
13, 1912. He was the son of James Madi-
son and Laur? Elizabeth (Pepin) Mason,
and of distinguished Virginia lineage.
1 le prepared for college in Washington
schools, and then entered Columbian Uni-
versity (now George Washington Uni-
versity) from which he was graduated in
the class of 1897. Soon after graduation
he became private secretary to General
Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War under
President McKinley, and remained with
him until General Alger was succeeded
by Hon. Elihu Root. He continued with
Secretary Root in the same capacity for
a short time. After General Alger re-
turned to Detroit. Mr. Mason joined him
in 1899, and again became his private
secretary. He filled this position until
the spring of 1902, when Tie became as-
sistant to Frank M. Murphy, president of
the Development Company of America
in New York City. Shortly afterward he

was elected second vice-president, then
vice-president, an office he most efficiently
filled until his resignation in 1910. In
addition to serving as vice-president and
member of the executive committee of
the Development Company of America,
Mr. Mason was a director and a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the
Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company,
Limited, the Imperial Copper Company,
and the American Mexican Lumber Com-
pany.

He was the close personal friend of Mr.
Murphy, and was always free to admit
that to his association with him he owed
much of his success in the business world.
During a portion of the time that he was
connected with the Development Com-
pany, Mr. Mason represented the com-
pany in England, where he gained an ex-
tensive acquaintance among the financiers
of London and Continental European
cities. On his return from England he
became a resident of Passaic, New Jersey,
and served as president of the Passaic
Board of Trade from 1907 until the time
of his death. He actively encouraged all
movements for social betterment ; took
a prominent part in affairs of local inter-
est, as for instance, when he laid the
corner stone of the Smith Academy, an
institution devoted to the social and phy-
sical activities of the young people of
Passaic ; and indeed displayed enthusi-
asm for the development of the city along
all lines. It was through his efforts that
an appropriation was secured from Con-
gross for a post office building in Passaic,
and that a Sunday mail collection was
ordered. It was due to him also that the
Passaic Bank was made a national de-
positary. He was one of the first and
strongest advocates of the purification of
the Passaic river, the agitation he began,
now bearing fruit in the construction of
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ally purify the river and enhance the value
of all lands adjoining the river.

While president of the Passaic Board
of Trade, he planned the memorable ban-
quet given by the board to noted men of
the nation, an event that was fully re-
corded in the daily press and will long be
remembered in Passaic. President Taft
was the guest of honor. Other eminent
men attending the banquet were : Post-
master-general Hitchcock, Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Nagel, the British
Ambassador, Leslie M. Shaw ; ex-Gov-
ernor Stokes, of New Jersey ; ex-Govern-
or Murphy, and Governor Woodrow Wil-
son. These men were all personal friends
of Mr. Mason. Other warm friends were
General Alger, General Coleman Dupont,
ex-Governor Fort, ex-Governor Griggs,
Oscar Straus, Senator Brice, of Ohio, and
Charles E. Hughes. Mr. Mason was
brought into contact with many public
men through his association with General
Alger in Washington and Detroit, his im-
portant business connections, his service in
1008 as assistant secretary of the Republi-
can National Committee with headquarters
in New York, and his active part in the
election of President Taft. He also made
a large army acquaintance in his capacity
as secretary of the National Board of
Ordnance and Fortification.

Mr. Mason was a delegate to the New
Jersey Republican State Convention of
1908, and a delegate to the National Re-
publican Convention of that year which
nominated President Taft. During the
campaign that followed, he accompanied
Mr. Taft on his noted western trip. Al-
though Mr. Mason was importuned to ac-
cept the nomination for mayor of Passaic
and was spoken of for United States Sen-
ator from New Jersey, he would never
allow his name to be used in connection
with political office.

He was deeply interested in the move-

ments to bridge and tunnel the Hudson
river, and by appointment of Governor
John H. Fort represented New Jersey as
a member of the New York Interstate
Bridge Commission, a joint commission
appointed by the States of New Jersey
and New York, of which he was vice-
chairman. He was also chairman of the
New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel
Commission, and not long prior to his
leaving for England in 191 1 was called in
conference by Governor Wilson to dis-
cuss the plans of the new commission for
bridging the Hudson.

Mr. Mason was a selfmade man in the
truest sense ; he worked his way through
college and followed high ideals. He was
a witty, eloquent after-dinner speaker and
;> most pleasing writer. He began writing
tor the press and periodicals when buv
twenty years of age, and continued to be
an occasional contributor in later life.
Some of his articles were highly com-
mended and republished in England,
notably "The Four Lincoln Conspira-
tors," an article illustrated by photo-
graphs taken by Mr. Mason. Among his
other contributions to current literature
were "Munitions of Modern Warfare."
and the "Flight and Capture of Jefferson
Davis." He was also responsible for the
publication of a "History of the Spanish-
American War," which vindicates Gen-
eral Alger from the charges of neglecting
the soldiers' health and welfare.

At a dinner of the Gridiron Club of
Washington given in honor of Mr. Mason
after the elections of 1908, he was pre-
sented with a handsome silver loving cup.
the gift of the Republican National Com-
mittee, in recognition of his valuable
services during the campaign as secretary
in charge of headquarters in New York
City.

He was an ardent devotee of out-door
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ing trips, and was a member of the Youn-
takah and Aquackanock Country clubs of
Passaic, and the Automobile Club of
America. He was also a member of
the Cosmos Club of Washington, the
Lawyers' Club of New York City, and
the Passaic Club of Passaic. He was
governor of the Michigan Society of New
York, and a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution. His college fra-
ternity was the Theta Delta Chi. In all
these clubs and societies he took an active
interest and was most highly regarded by
his fellow members.

Mr. Mason married, in 1891, Daisy
Comstock, daughter of Frank Asbury
and Emma Helena Simons, of Water-
town, New York. His wife and three
children — Annette, Helena, and Victor
Louis (2d) — survive him.

In the latter part of November, 1911,
Mr. Mason went to England in the inter-
est of the North Carolina Transcontinen-
tal Construction Company, and for sev-
eral months was engaged in the flotation
of a twenty-five million-dollar bond issue
of that company. After completing the
bond sale to English capitalists, Mr. Ma-
son gave a luncheon to some personal
friends in London, including Commander
Marsh, an officer of the English army
and at noted aviator. Aviation was a
subject of interest to Mr. Mason ; he had
once made an ascent in a biplane in the
United States. Naturally the conversa-
tion turned to aviation, and after luncheon
the party, on invitation of Commander
Marsh, motored to Aviation Field at
Brooklands. As Mr. Mason had ex-
pressed a wish to go up. Commander
Marsh secured him a seat in a monoplane
piloted by the daring aviator, E. V. R.
Fisher. After being in flight but a few
minutes the machine became unmanage-
able and fell to the ground, injuring Mr.
Mason fatally.

The following tributes to Mr. Mason's
memory speak volumes in his praise:

At a special meeting of the members of the
Passaic Board of Trade, held May twenty-third,
nineteen hundred and twelve, the following min-
ute was unanimously adopted:

The Passaic Board of Trade is met in special
session upon the saddest occasion in its history.
Words cannot express the sorrow and loss we
and the entire city of Passaic have sustained in
the death of Victor Louis Mason. We feel im-
potent to adequately honor the memory of such
a life. As our president for five years we knew
Mr. Mason as an inspiring leader in every move-
ment for civic betterment; a leader who com-
manded respect, confidence, and finally success.
The good that he has done will live after him.
The Board of Trade never before achieved such
success as it has under the presidency of Victor
Louis Mason. It has been during the period
of his residence and activity among us that the
city of Passaic has had its largest growth, and
become most widely known. Mr. Mason's
marked executive ability, his high personal char-
acter, and pleasing personality were freely ac-
knowledged on every hand. In city, State and
national councils, his advice and assistance were
freely given and highly esteemed.

We shall miss his wise leadership, his faculty
for accomplishment, and his personal friendship.
We shall miss him more than we can tell. His
capacity and willingness to labor for the up-
building of his city were conspicuous and nota-
ble. Therefore be it

Resolved, That we record our high regard and
affection for our late president, Victor Louis
Mason, and our deep appreciation of the volun-
tary public services rendered by him to the
Board and to the c!ty of Passaic, also our keen
sense of loss in his death, and that we extend
to his family our heartfelt sympathy in their
bereavement. Chas. F. H. Johnson.

Secretary.

Directors — Christian Balmsen, Alfred R. Bar-
ton, R. H. Bremner, E. J. Coughlin, Isaac W.
England, Julius Forstmann, W. F. Gaston,
Thomas A. M. Goodlate, Chas. F. H. Johnson,
Robt. D. Kent, Richard Morrell, Edward A.
Poor, George C. Hohlig, George P. Rust, Rich-
ard Scoles, George N. Seger, Alex. Stuart, B.
G. Volger, F. Wilckes.

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the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and
Tunnel Commission in joint session:

In the passing of Victor Louis Mason, chair-
man of the New Jersey Bridge Commission and
vice-chairman of the joint commissions since
their organizations in nineteen hundred and six,
the public service with respect to improved
interstate transportation between New York
and New Jersey has sustained a great loss and
his colleagues on these commissions realize the
deprivation of his wise counsel and excellent
business judgment; association with him in con-
ference lightened our labors. Let us therefore
pause to note upon the minutes of our proceed-
ings our respectful voice in memory of his de-
votion to his duties in connection with our work
and the pleasant companionship he afforded us:

Resolved, That the secretary cause a copy of
this minute duly certified and suitably engrossed
to be transmitted to the family of Victor Louis
Mason with the condolence of the members of
the New York Interstate Bridge Commission
and the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tun-
nel Commission.

McDoucall Hawkes,
Chairman.

At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the North Carolina Trans-
continental Construction Company, held
at its offices in the City of New York,
May 21, 1912, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His
wise Providence to remove from our midst our
esteemed associate and loyal friend, Victor L.
Mason, a man whom to meet was to love; a
true friend, a capable officer; a man of unusual
energy and zeal, and of high integrity, a Chris-
tian gentleman, and a patriotic citizen, and.

Whereas, The long and intimate relation held
with him in the faithful discharge of his duties
as president of this company makes it eminently
fitting that we record our appreciation of him,
therefore

Resolved, That the sudden removal of such a
life leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be
deeply realized by all members and friends of
this organization, and will prove a serious loss
to the community and public.

Resolved, That we convey to the bereaved
wife and family of our departed associate and

friend our deep sympathy in this their hour of
trial.

Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these
resolutions be sent to the bereaved family, duly
signed by the authorized officers.

T. C. DuPont,
Attest: President.

A. H. Faust,

Secretary.

GODLEY, John Forman,

Enterprising Bnsiness Man.

The late John Forman Godley, of Tren-
ton, New Jersey, was a fine example of a
man born to command. Wise to plan,
quick in action, capable of prolonged
labor, all these qualities were combined
with a power of close concentration. He
had a habit of investigating thoroughly
every detail of a proposed enterprise, and
of calculating closely the probable con-
sequences of any given policy. Every
subject was given intense thought, and
when satisfied with the conclusions at
which he had arrived, he had the courage
of his convictions in the face of deter-
mined opposition. His mistakes in judg-
ment were few and far between.

William Godley, great-grandfather of
John Forman Godley, married Mary
Rockhill, daughter of Edward Rockhill,
a prominent man of Hunterdon county,
New Jersey.

William (2) Godley, son of William
(1) and Mary (Rockhill) Godley, bought
a tract of land of two hundred acres in
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1791,
and the following year built the large
stone homestead on it. The Godleys were
Methodists, and as there was no church
in the neighborhood, the presiding elder
held meetings at regular intervals at this
homestead. He married (first) Abigail
Grandin, and when she died he married
(second) her sister, Eleanor (Grandin)
Covenhoven.a widow, daughters of Philip
and Eleanor (Forman) Grandin. Philip

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Crandin was commissioned major of the
Second Military Battalion by Governor
Franklin, April 10, 1771.

Augustus Godley, son of William (2)
and Eleanor (Grandin-Covenhoven) God-
ley, was born on the Godley homestead
in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He
was the owner of a mill, and Godley
Mills, Hunterdon county, was named in
his honor. He was also the possessor
of other extensive lands in Hunterdon
county. New Jersey. He finally sold his
mill and retired to the homestead which,
after his death, was purchased by his son,
John Forman Godley. Augustus Godley
married (first) Mary Disbrough, (second)
Elizabeth Paul Forman, a descendant of
the Rev. William Forman. of England,
whose son, Robert Forman, had returned
to England from Holland, having mar-
ried Johanna , and from thence

emigrating to America, locating in Flush-
ing, Long Island, in 1645. Their son,

Aaron Forman, married Dorothy .

Their son, Samuel Forman, high sheriff
of Monmouth, 1605, married Mary Wil-
fore, of Rhode Island. Their fourth son,
Ezekiel Forman. married Elizabeth Sea-
brook, sister of Daniel Seabrook. Their
son, Dr. Aaron Forman, married Ann
Emley, daughter of John and Sarah
(Lawrence) Emley. Their son, John
Emley Forman, married Sidney Paul
Rakcstraw. Their daughter, Elizabeth
Paul Forman, became the second wife of
Augustus Godley and mother of John
Forman Godley.

John Forman Godley, son of Augustus
and Elizabeth Paul (Forman^ Godley,
was born on the Godley homestead, at
Godley Mills, Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, August 21, 1845, and died at Tren-
ton. New Jersey, April 22, 1913. His ele-
mentary education was acquired in the
town of his birth, and he then became a
student at the Excelsior Normal Insti-

tute at Carversville, and later at the At-
tleboro Institution, Pennsylvania. About
the year 1875 he removed to Trenton, and
there established himself in the whole-
sale bedding and spring business, in asso-
ciation with Jacob C. Bloom, the firm
name being Bloom & Godley. They com-
menced business in a modest way in a
small building on South Warren street,
near Fall street. Three years later they
had outgrown their quarters, and rented
a structure on South Broad street, oppo-
site Lafayette. The progressive methods
put into practice here caused a steady
and consistent increase in the demands
made upon their business resources, and
they soon outgrew these quarters also.
In 1889 they erected a large and modern
plant at Nos. 203-207 North Willow
street, which is the present home of this
important concern. It has been found
necessary to improve and make additions
to the original building from time to time
as the growing needs demanded. This
firm is the only one in the city which
manufactures bedding and bed springs,
and one of the very few in the State en-
gaged in this industry. About eight years
prior to the death of Mr. Godley, the busi-
ness was incorporated, at which time Mr.
Godley was chosen president of the cor-
poration, Mr. Bloom was made treasurer,
and William Cooley, of Trenton, secre-
tary.

The reliable methods which have char-
acterized this business from the outset
have resulted in gaining the confidence
of all who have had dealings with it, and
the majority of its patrons are of very
long standing. Mr. Godley never held
public office, holding the opinion that he
was best serving the interests of the
community by devoting his time and at-
tention to increasing her material pros-
perity by means of his business. He has.
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hearty supporter of any project which
tended for the public welfare in any par-
ticular. Of a deeply religious nature, Mr.
Godley was a member of the Third Pres-
byterian Church for a period of thirty-
five years, during thirty of which he
taught a class of young men in the Sun-
day school. He was a member of the
church session for almost a quarter of
a century, serving as sessional treasurer
about eighteen years. In early years he
became a member of the Young Men's
Christian Association, and at the time of
his death had been a director of this or-
ganization for many years. His fine and
commodious residence was at No. 197
West State street.

Mr. Godley married Sarah E. Hunt,
youngest daughter of Edward and Effie
Hunt, of Milford, New Jersey. He was
buried in Milford Union Cemetery, in the
beautiful family plot, marked by a hand-
some granite monument of noble propor-
tions. The view from here, looking up
the river to the west among the hills to
the setting sun, is most charming and
not to be forgotten by those who have
looked upon the beautiful scene. Mr.
Godley was of a genial, warm-hearted dis-
position and his generosity and philan-
thropy were well known. A tale of dis-
tress was always a passport to his sympa-
thetic heart, and he did not rest until the
trouble had been alleviated to the best of
his ability. The entire career of Mr. God-
ley was marked by uprightness and sin-
cerity of purpose.

CROSBY, Henry Barrett,

Founder of an Important Business.

Of the three important periods in the
life of Henry Barrett Crosby, Paterson's
leading merchant for so many years —
childhood, youth and man, the first and
second most truly show his mettle and

the strength of his character. Descended
from good English forbears, he inherited
a strain of ambition, industry, persever-
ance and determination which, with a
sound mind and body, were his only
fortune. Yet as a boy he worked, con-
trived and saved, secured enough educa-
tion to render his after business life
secure, purchased his freedom, and par-
tially learned a trade. His youth was a
repetition of his childhood experiences,
but he persevered, never lost heart, and
at the age of twenty-seven years had com-
pleted his trade, tested of many of life's
changes, accumulated a small capital
which he invested in a small business in
Paterson that grew and grew until at
his retirement he had been for many
years at the head of a very large whole-
sale and retail grocery business. When
prosperity came, the traits that won suc-
cess predominated, and that period of his
life was noble and useful. But the twen-
ty-seven years preceding his entrance
into business and the first years there-
after were the years that proved his in-
ward quality and his right to rank as "a
man among men."

Henry Barrett Crosby was a descend-
ant in the seventh generation of the Cros-
by family in America founded by Simon
Crosby, who came from England to New
England in 1635, on the ship "Susan and
Ellen." Simon Crosby was a descendant
of that Ode de Crosseby who was consta-
ble of Titchall, Yorkshire, England, in
1204 A. D. and bore arms: Per chevron
sable, argent three goats pass, counter-
charged. Watson Crosby, of the sixth
generation, moved from Massachusetts
to Brattleboro, Vermont, but never pros-
pered financially, although noted for
honesty and shrewdness of wit. He mar-
ried Desiah Bangs, and had ten children,
his only fortune.

Henry Barrett, son of Watson and De-

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siah (Bangs) Crosby, was born at Brat-
tleboro, Vermont, April 13, 1815, and died
in Faterson, New Jersey. He attended
the public schools until ten years of age,
then began a life of toil and privation
lhat extended over a long period, but
which, instead of crushing his spirit and
ambition, developed those latent qualities
that carried him finally to the topmost
rounds of the ladder of success. He work-
ed for two years on a neighboring farm,
his employer being the grandfather of
President Rutherford B. Hayes. At
twelve years of age the family returned
to Massachusetts, locating in Springfield,
the lad beginning work in a cotton fac-
tory at Chicopee Falls. At the age of
fourteen years he began learning the
paper maker's trade, but the introduction
of machinery convinced him that the day
of the handmade paper worker was over.
He worked at farming at fifteen dollars
monthly wages until sixteen years of age,
then decided upon the machinist's trade as
his life work. He went to Woonsocket,
Rhode Island, where for six months he
worked for his board, then for eight
months at one dollar per day wages. He
made rapid progress in his trade, and
next went to Chicopee Falls, where he
worked until June, 1834. His parents had
returned to Brattleboro some time before,
and, having saved some money, he re-
solved to visit them and spend a few
months in attending school. He did so
and for six months attended Brattleboro
Academy. During this period he bought
his release from his father, giving him
notes for two hundred and twenty dol-
lars, which he later paid in full. He
was then about twenty years of age,
and with nothing but his freedom papers
he again started out to face the world.
He secured employment in a machine
shop at Ware, Massachusetts, where he
was employed three years. He then

started west by way of the Erie Canal,
but only got as far as Utica, New York,
then started on the return journey. He
got as far as Troy, there being taken sick.
After recovery he went to Poughkeepsie,
where he obtained employment at his
trade, helping to build two engines for
piledriving purposes. He then started
to return to Massachusetts, but on the
steamer he met Supt. Lavvton, under
whom he had formerly worked, and by
him was induced to go to Paterson, New
Jersey, where Samuel Colt was beginning
the manufacture of guns and pistols under
his own patents. He arrived in Paterson,
April 23, 1837, being then twenty-two
years of age. He worked for Mr. Colt
for some time, contracting portions of
the lock and revolving parts of the guns.
Mr. Colt did not succeed and Mr. Crosby
was again out of work. Fortune now de-
serted him. his health failed, and he was
obliged to spend a summer at Cape May.
A summer by the sea completely restored
his health, but times were bad, and hav-
ing a very few hundred dollars saved he
decided to invest it in a small grocery
store, although he had no especial knowl-
edge of that line of trade. He secured
as assistant Lewis L. Conklin, and under
his advice stocked a small store on Main
street, near Broadway, opening for busi-
ness, May 6, 1868. The little venture was
a success, Mr. Crosby proved an apt
pupil, and soon demonstrated that at last
he had found his true vocation. In two
years he was compelled to enlarge, and,
moving his business to Main street and
Broadway, he obtained commodious and
more suitable quarters. There he re-
mained ten years, then by purchase ac-
quired more property on Main street, and
the property in the rear extending to
Washington street. He then not only ex-
tended his retail lines but also added a
wholesale department. His business be-

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came very large in both departments, but
Mr. Crosby had grown with it, and at
no time was he at a loss to properly man-
age and direct it. In 1867 he admitted his
son, J. Henry Crosby, to a partnership
under the firm name of H. B. Crosby <S:
Son. For twenty-one years longer he
continued at the head of the magnificent
business he had created, then on April 2,
1 888, after forty-five years of successful
endeavor in mercantile life, he retired, his
son continuing under the reorganized
form, Crosby, Ackerman & Van Gieson,
until 1893.

During these forty-five years Mr. Cros-
by, although starting with no experience
and little capital, never allow a note or
check to go to protest, never owed a bill
that was not paid exactly when due, nor
ever paid less than one hundred cents on
the dollar. He was both exact and exact-
ing, rendered to every man his just due,
and demanded from others the same. He
never went outside his chosen business,
but into that he threw all the energy he
possessed. He personally directed and
superintended his business, not until 1869
allowing himself an extended vacation.
He then toured Europe with his family,
and also spent eight months in California.
His business record is a wonderful one,
but its beginning was on the sure founda-
tions of honesty and uprightness, and on
these foundations was built the largest
business of its kind, perhaps in the entire
State.

It is pleasant to record that Mr. Crosby
was also a man of public spirit, and aided
in the establishment of other enterprises
of importance and was foremost in civic
improvement. After his return from
Europe in 1869 he read a paper before the
Paterson Roard of Trade on "public
parks," the result of his investigation of
parks and park systems abroad. From
this paper sprang the movement that gave

to Paterson her splendid park system, Mr.
Crosby long serving as president of the
board of park commissioners. He was
associated with others in founding the
Cedar Lawn Cemetery Association, and
from 1876 was its president. He aided
wonderfully in the suburban development
of Paterson as president of a building as-
sociation, as president of the East Side
Land Company, as president of the Pas-
saic Land Improvement Company at
Lake View, and gave an impetus to the
building of modern homes of beauty by
erecting his own beautiful home, corner
of Broadway and Paterson streets, in
1853, the location then being a cornfield.

He was one of the largest stockholders
in the First National Bank, aided in its
organization, was a member of its first
board of directors, and always held that
position while he served. He was for
many years vice-president of the Pater-
son Savings Institution, was one of the
organizers of the Paterson Board of
Trade, and in New York was connected
with the Produce Exchange and the
Chamber of Commerce. In all these his
sound judgment, prudence and practical
business experience were of the greatest
value. He gave to them the same care-
ful attention that he gave to his private
business, neglecting no precaution to
safeguard corporate interests entrusted
to him.

In religious faith, Mr. Crosby was a
Baptist, a member of the Paterson First
Church for forty years, serving as trustee
and member of the building committee
that erected their new edifice. In politics
he was an ardent Republican, served as
a delegate to the convention that nomi-
nated Abraham Lincoln for President,
and always was a loyal supporter of party
principles. He was a strong temperance
man and, when starting in business in
1843, excluded all liquors from his stock.

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Thus at all points Mr. Crosby met the
requirements of good citizenship. He
was indeed the builder of his own fortune,
and right well he built, but withal he was
modest and unassuming. His life should
prove an inspiration to the young man,
showing as it does that no place in the
business world is beyond the reach of
the clean living, clearheaded, ambitious
and persevering boy or man, even though
handicapped by little capital and the ab-
sence of influential friends.

Mr. Crosby married (first) February
27, 1840, Pauline Fairfield Ilathorn, born
at Smithfield, New Jersey, September 3,
1821, died at Paterson, January 23, 1872,
daughter of Thomas W. and Anna
(Hinchman) Ilathorn, and granddaugh-
ter of General John Hathorn, of General
Washington's staff during the Revolu-
tion, and a member of the Second and
Fourth United States Congresses. Mr.
Crosby married (second) December 6,
1875, Harriet Eliza Rogers, born January
8, 1839, daughter of Noah and Rebecca
(Clark) Rogers, of Cornwall, Connecti-
cut, a descendant of Puritan and Hugue-
not ancestors. Children of the first mar-
riage: Pauline Crosby, married Samuel
Coit Allen; John Henry, married Mary
Harriet Crowell ; Annie Louise, married
Tsaac Newton, Jr. ; Isabella Stewart, de-
ceased. Children of second marriage :
Henry Rarrett (2), married Mabel Mari-
on ; Florence Lyon. Mrs. Crosby died
in September, 1916.

PERRY, Oliver H.,

Financier, Enterprising Citizen.

The late Oliver H. Perry, of Jersey
City, New Jersey, well and favorably-
known in business and social circles, had
inherited in rich measure the sterling
qualities which characterized his distin-
guished ancestors. He was a descendant

in a direct line of Edward Perry, a Quak-
er, who came from Devonshire, England,
to Sandwich, Massachusetts, where, Jan-
uary 1, 1676, he wrote, "A Railing Against
the Court of Plymouth," and was heavily
fined for this article. He married Mary,
a daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Ed-
mund and Elizabeth Freeman, and their
son migrated to Rhode Island, where one
of his descendants was the famous

Captain Christopher Raymond Perry,
of the United States Navy, born at
Newport, Uhode Island, December 4,
1761, and died there, June 1, 1818. He
devoted his life to the service of his coun-
try. He first enlisted in the "Kingston
Reds ;" served in the patriot army, and
then on a privateer, and on the "Mifflin"
was captured, and lay for three months in
the "Jersey,"' the famous prison ship, but
escaped ; reenlisted on the "Trumbull,"
and was in the battle with the "Watt."
Later he was again captured, while on a
privateer, and kept a prisoner at Newry,
Ireland. Captain Perry made voyages in
the mercantile marine trade to the East
Indies, and his appointment as a post
captain in the United States Navy came
to him January 9, 1798. He built and
commanded the "General Greene," and
cruised in the West Indies, cooperating
with Toussaint L'Ouverture in the civil
war in Santa Domingo. When the navy
was nearly disbanded in 1801, he was ap-
pointed collector of Newport, but not
long afterward retired to private life.
While in Newry, Ireland, he first met his
wife, Sarah Wallace Alexander, whom he
married at Philadelphia, in October, 1784.
She was born in Newry, County Down,
Ireland, in 1768, and died in New London,
Connecticut, December 4, 1830. Her
grandfather was James Wallace, an offi-
cer in the Scotch army, and a signer of
the Solemn League and Covenant, who
fled in 1600 with many others from

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County Ayr to the North of Ireland. She
was left an orphan at an early age, and
was provided for by her uncle's family.
She accompanied her parents' friend, Mr.
Calbraith, to this country, and shortly
after her arrival married Captain Perry,
then mate of a ship, at the house of the
celebrated surgeon, Dr. Benjamin Rush,
of Philadelphia. They had five children.
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, son
of Captain Christopher Raymond and
Sarah Wallace (Alexander) Perry, was
born at South Kingston, Rhode Island,
August 23, 1785, and died at Port Spain,
Trinidad, August 23, 1819. He was care-
fully reared by his mother, who incul-
cated one truth beyond all others — that,
in order to command others, one must
first learn to obey. He was educated in
private schools in Kingston, Tower Hill
and Newport, and was an apt scholar in
mathematics and navigation. At the age
of twelve years he was confirmed in the
Episcopal church. With his parents he
removed to Warren, Rhode Island, in
1797. April 7, 1799, he received his com-
mission as midshipman, and cruised in
the West Indies. Later he cruised to
Louisiana, and then served in the Tripoli-
tan War. January 15, 1807, he was ap-
pointed a lieutenant, and, after building a
fleet of gunboats, commanded the schoon-
er, "Revenge." While preparing for the
War of 181 2 he gave deep study to the
science of gunnery and naval tactics, so
that when the fight commenced he was
considered the best qualified naval officer
in the United States. He had assembled
his gunboats and made his men compre-
hend the evolutions of a fleet. He ten-
dered his services to Commodore Isaac
Chauncey on the lakes, and, on the re-
quest of the latter, Perry was ordered to
Lake Erie. Within twenty-four hours of
February 17, 1812, he had sent ahead a
detachment of fifty men, and set off in a

sleigh for Lake Erie on the 22nd, reach-
ing there March 27th. He directed the
building of a squadron from the virgin
forest, and by incredible toil collected a
force of nine vessels, but in it were only
two vessels which could be classed as
men-of-war — the "Lawrence" and the
"Niagara," of five hundred tons burden
each, carrying twenty guns apiece. The
British side, under Captain Robert Heriot
Barclay, supplied its ships by dismantling
its forts, and he had six vessels of one
thousand four hundred and sixty tons,
with sixty-three cannon, or nine more
than the American fleet possessed. Perry
moved from Put-in-Bay on the morning
of September 10, 1813, to meet the Brit-
ish fleet. The opposing forces approached
each other at eleven o'clock, and when the
bugle sounded on the flagship of the Brit-
ish fleet the men gave three cheers, and
the long guns of the "Detroit" opened on
the "Lawrence" at a distance of half a
mile. At noon the battle was on in dead
earnest, the heaviest vessels of each fleet
confronting each other as in a duel. The
advantage at the start was with Barclay,
and the cockpit of the "Lawrence" was
filled with wounded men and the ship re-
duced to the condition of a hulk. Under
these circumstances, Perry called for men
to man a boat, and with the flag wrapped
around his arm was taken to the "Nia-
gara." The breeze coming up now, aided
the Americans to get into position, so
that they swept the British decks. At
three o'clock the enemy lowered the Brit-
ish flag, announcing that Great Britain
had lost its entire squadron, and this to
a man of twenty-seven years. It was
then that Perry sent the famous despatch
to General Harrison, reading: "We have
met the enemy and they are ours." A
painting depicting this great episode in
American history may be seen in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol at Washington. Com-

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modore Perry married Elizabeth C. Ma-
son. A lineal descendant of Commodore
Perry was Dr. Alfonzo Perry, of Rhode
Island, who married Marietta Plate.
Their son was

Oliver H. Perry, who was born in New
York State, and died in Jersey City, New
Jersey, in 190S. He was the recipient of
an excellent education at Rockford Col-
lege, New York, and after being gradu-
ated from this institution accepted a cleri-
cal position with the Erie Railroad Com-
pany, with whom his brother was already
holding a responsible position. Later he
engaged in the coal business in Jersey
City, with which he was identified until
his death. He was a man of many sided
ability, and was held in high regard in
the financial world. He was a director
of the Fifth Ward Bank, and of the Third
National Bank of Jersey City. For a
time he was a freeholder of the county.
He was a member of the Hollywood
Hunting Club, of the Union League, and
the Corate Club.

Mr. Perry married Eugenia Wild, also
a native of New York. While taking a
fair share in the social life of the city,
Mr. Perry was a man of very domestic
inclinations, and found his chief pleasures
in the home circle.

HUSK, James H.,

■ Respected Citizen.

A selfmade man rising to a condition
of competence and ease through enter-
prise, industry and resolute purpose, Mr.
Husk belonged to that honored class of
men whose lives are a lesson and an in-
spiration. Few men in Essex county,
New Jersey, were more widely known,
none more worthy of the high esteem in
which he was held, and none more de-
serving of success than he. He was of
the third generation of his family in Cald-

well township, Essex county, his grand-
father, John Husk, a native of Holland,
Europe, purchasing a tract of land at
Clinton, Caldwell township, in 1800. On
his first visit to Clinton the locality was
in such primitive condition that on the
spot which afterward he cultivated as a
garden, he shot a deer. John Husk car-
ried on the work of wresting a farm from
the forest all his life, and to such men is
due the reclamation of the beautiful Cald-
well section. They laid the foundation
for the present prosperity, and, like John
Husk, left sons who carried forward the
work begun by their sires. John Husk
had seven children: Abraham, of further
mention ; Ellen, married John M. Van
Duyne, of Morris county ; Sarah, married
Henry Francisco, of Caldwell township ;
Rachael, married Lewis Estler, and died
at Boonton, New Jersey ; Richard, died at
Boonton ; Eliza, married Henry Stager,
whose farm was on the North Caldwell
road ; John, lived and died in Caldwell
township.

Abraham Husk, eldest son of John
Husk, the founder, was born at the Husk
homestead in Clinton, Caldwell township,
in 1807, there spent his life of fifty-one
years, and died March 4, 1858. He spent
his life from boyhood in the cultivation
and improvement of the farm, succeeded
to its ownership, and was highly regarded
in his neighborhood, as a man of industry
and thrift. He married Esther Crane,
who died February 14, i860, daughter of
Abijah Crane. Children: Maria; James
H., of further mention; Stephen; Eliza;
Lucetta ; John ; Richard ; William ; Al-
fred ; Thomas; Abbie, and Marcus I".

James H. Husk, son of Abraham and
Esther (Crane) Husk, was born at the
homestead in Clinton, Essex county, New
Jersey, October 13, 1829, died in Caldwell.
New Jersey, April 6, 1909. He attended
the district school, and from boyhood

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until attaining legal age remained at
home, his father's farm assistant. He
never liked his occupation, and as soon
as he attained his majority left the home
roof, with a small well earned capital, a
stout heart, a clear mind, and a good
healthy body, developed under the best
conditions of country and family life. He
first went to Boonton, New Jersey, where
he had relatives living, and for a time was
employed as a team driver. He then se-
cured a position with the Boonton Iron
Company as a cutter in the nail depart-
ment, and in a later year was promoted
to the position of general superintendent
of outdoor work. He continued with the
Boonton Iron Company until 1859, when
he resigned to become wagon salesman
for Campbell, Lane & Company, of Cald-
well, New Jersey. His business was to
drive over a given route at regular inter-
vals, and dispose of the stock of goods
with which his wagon was loaded. He
was very successful and in course of time
he accumulated considerable capital,
which he invested in a farm. He culti-
vated his own acres for a time, but the
boyhood dislike for farm labor was still
strong within him„ and he soon sold out
and sought a new field of investment.
This he found in the Caldwell and Mont-
clair stage line, which he bought in 1883
and operated very profitably until June
30, 1897, when the trolley line superseded
the stage. He then operated a livery
barn and continued in business activity
for several more years, then retired com-
pletely to the comfort and enjoyment of
the competence he had so honorably
earned. He was a man of strong char-
acter, rugged in his honesty and every-
body's friend. He was a member of the
Republican party, and always a keen
voter on town, county, State and govern-
ment affairs. He was a member of the
Free and Accepted Masons, in Caldwell,
New Jersey.

Mr. Husk married, in Morris county,
January 19, 1850, Adeline Stites, daugh-
ter of Nicholas Stites. She survives her
husband, a resident of Caldwell. Chil-
dren: Wilson, Maria L., Jessie, Sarah,
Thomas S., Nellie and Adline. Mr. Husk
and his family were members of the Pres-
byterian church.

MULLIGAN, Patrick Francis,

Bookseller, Newsdealer, Stationer.

Born in Ireland, but from infancy until
death a resident of the city of Newark,
Mr. Mulligan's life story is one of exceed-
ing interest and commendable example.
He found no royal road to fortune, but
pursued the old difficult path to business
success, starting humbly, thoroughly
mastering every detail, and earnestly and
intelligently pursuing one line of business
from his boyhood. He was a "news-
dealer" from the time he was a little boy,
and it is said of him that he knew the
name and address of every man in New-
ark who had attained prominence. From
a small beginning he built up the largest
book, stationery and news business in the
city of Newark. His store on Broad
street, opposite the City Hall, being the
literary centre for the city. He supplied
three generations, and as his memory was
peculiarly accurate and retentive, he could
tell the life story of thousands of his fel-
low citizens, and in this faculty he had no
equal in the city. One of the main rea-
sons for his rise in the business world was
his personal, consistent and constant de-
votion to his business. His familiar sta-
tion in the store was behind the counter
near the door. He knew every item of
his stock, was for years his own cashier,
and his volume of personal sales exceed-
ed that of all of his clerks. This atten-
tion he continued even after the stream
of fortune had floated him, to a high finan-
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worker until the end, and contrary to the
advice of his friends and his physician he
refused to take any vacation, and chose
rather to be in his old place in the store
and still "in harness," as he liked to put
it. Men liked and admired the outspoken
manner of the boy, and they enjoyed to
linger in conversation with him in the
riper and mellowed years of manhood and
old age. He was a man of strong and
decided views, and while he expressed
them frankly and uncompromisingly, he
yet possess? 1 the rare faculty of differing
without offending.

While for forty-two years he conducted
his business on Broad street, and was the
best known dealer in his line in the city,
he became thoroughly familiar with New-
ark real estate values, and acquired his
wealth largely from well timed invest-
ments in centrally located property. His
judgment of real estate values was re-
markably accurate, and from his host of
friends he could always obtain any infor-
mation which he might desire regarding
investments. Intensely strong in his
political views, it was only as a patriotic,
interested citizen, never as the office
seeker, although his reputation at large
and his friendship with the leaders of
both parties was a weighty asset had he
desired to use them for his political ad-
vancement. But he was never lured from
his chosen life work, and while he was
proud that he had made his life a success,
he was well contented to end as he began.
"P. F. Mulligan, bookseller, newsdealer
and stationer."

To the city of which he was a long
honored resident, he left the record of a
well lived life, and an example of perse-
verance, integrity and character. His two
sons, James Roosevelt and George Doane
Mulligan, are successful members of the
Essex county bar.

Patrick Francis Mulligan was born

February 5, 1846, in the Aghadrumsee dis-
trict of Clones, in County Monahan, Ire-
land, and died in Newark, New Jersey,
May 17, 1910, son of Hugh and Bridget
(McCaffery) Mulligan, both of Irish
birth, the former a native of County
Monahan, the latter of County Ferma-
nagh.

In 1847 Mrs- Hugh Mulligan, after the
death of her husband, brought her three
sun- to the United States, settling in East
Newark, New Jersey.

Patrick Francis attended the public
school in East Newark and the famous
Kearny School in Newark, and began
his business life on August 31, 1861, as
one of Newark's booksellers in the em-
ploy of Charles A. Wallen, who conducted
a book store on Broad street, near the
Third Presbyterian Church. He con-
tinued an employee of Mr. Wallen until
Friday, November 13, 1868, when at the
age of twenty-two he bought out the
Wallen business, and in 1871 moved it
to a new building which he had erected at
No. 927 Broad street, the present location
of the book store which is now run by the
family as a corporation. As the years
passed, his business expanded until "Mul-
ligan's" became the most important of
all similar establishments in the city.

These two lines, his business and his
investments were Mr. Mulligan's greatest
activity, and in both he won reputation
and fortune. He was a Democrat in poli-
tics, and a member of the congregation
of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. He be-
longed to no clubs, and the only interests
in his life were his business, his home and
his family. He was buried in the family
plot in the Cemetery of the Holy Sepul-
chre, East Orange.

Patrick Francis Mulligan married, in
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, Feb-
ruary 5, 1877, Mary Flizabeth Gaffney,
daughter of Peter Gaffney and Catherine

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Carr. Children : Francis P., born No- cester county, and so satisfactory was his

vember 4, 1877, died December 18, 1885;
James Roosevelt, born May 28, 1880;
George Doane, born May 28, 1880; Ella
May, born May 10, 1883, died May 25,
1887; and May Frances (Mrs. Harry L.
Brittingham, of Danville, Illinois), born
March 15, 1888.

TATEM, William Peniston,

Business Man, Public Official.

At the old Tatem homestead at Wood-
bury, Gloucester county, New Jersey, Wil-
liam P. Tatem was born, May 28, 1822,
and seventy-four years later, August 20,
1896, he ended his useful life at Collings-
wood, Camden county, New Jersey. He
came from an old New Jersey family, well
known in Gloucester county and South
Jersey, and in his own life maintained the
high standards and best traditions of his
race. He obtained a good education, and
for several years taught school in his
native county, but later engaged in the
insurance business in Camden, New Jer-
sey, where for thirty-five years he was a
director of the Camden Fire Insurance
Association and for twelve years its presi-
dent. He was a good business man, a
capable executive and an authority in the
insurance world in which he moved. Mr.
Tatem was a son of Joseph and Mary
Tatem, and the old homestead in Wood-
bury is yet owned in the family.

Mr. Tatem was always deeply inter-
ested in politics and an ardent supporter
of the Republican party. He held many
positions of honor and trust, through the
favor of the voters of Woodbury and
Gloucester county, and each office held
but increased his hold upon public confi-
dence. While he held many minor offices,
he also filled places of county and dis-
trict importance. He was but thirty-two
years of age when elected sheriff of Glou-

administration of the duties of that office
that later he was called to represent his
district in the New Jersey State Senate.
In that body he became well known
throughout the State for his devotion to
the interests of the people, for his able
work upon the floor of the Senate and his
untiring labors in the committees upon
which he was placed. At the expiration
of his term he was reelected, and repeat-
ing the successes of his first term, his con-
stituents returned him for a third term,
which he likewise served with honor and
fidelity. While he was a straight party
man and always stood firmly by his prin-
ciples, he was not unfair or blindly par-
tisan, and retired from every office he ever
held with the confidence and respect of
the people he served irrespective of party
affiliation. In 1868 Senator Tatem was
appointed internal revenue collector for
a New Jersey district by President Grant,
an office he filled most satisfactorily to
the government and to those whose busi-
ness came within the scope of his author-
ity until the first administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, when he resigned and re-
tired from public life. From 1854, when
elected sheriff, until his retirement in
1885, his life was lived in the fierce light
of publicity and much of that period was
one of heated political feeling when party
spirit ran high, but he held inviolate a
strict sense of public honor and never was
there a stain upon his public record. In
private and business life he adhered to
the same high ideals and left to his de-
scendants an honored name. He was one
of the organizers of the Haddonfield Pres-
byterian Church, and was a trustee of the
church until his death. Within a square
of his old home at Collingswood a $50,000
Presbyterian church has been erected,
being on a part of the old homestead
ground.

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Mr. Tatem married, in 1849, Achsah
White Frazer, of near Bordentown, Bur-
lington county, New Jersey, and this life
was an ideal one. Mrs. Tatem's death oc-
curred six years prior to her husband's.
Four children were born of their union :
Joseph E., deceased; William P., Jr., died
in infancy; Mary L., deceased; Henry R.,
resides in Collingswood, New Jersey,
where he is engaged in the real estate and
insurance business ; was the town's first
mayor, acted as postmaster for ten years,
and served two terms in the New Jersey
Legislature.

VANDERPOEL, Beach,

Enterprising Citizen, Public Official.

The great-great-grandfather of Beach
Vanderpoel, one of Newark's honored
mayors of the early day, was Wynant
Vanderpoel, born in Albany, New York,
1681, died in Newark, New Jersey, April
14, 1750. Wynant Vanderpoel, of Albany
and Newark, was a son of Melgert
Wyantse Vanderpoel, a grandson of
Wyant Gerritse Vanderpoel, born in Am-
sterdam, Holland, in 1620, died in Albany,
New York, 1699, and a great-grandson of
Gerrit Vanderpoel, of Amsterdam, and
his wife, Tryntje (Melgert) Vanderpoel,
also of Amsterdam. The Vanderpoel
residence in Newark began with Wynant
Vanderpoel in 1730, and from that day
until the present the name has been an
honored one in the official and business
annals of the city.

James Vanderpoel, father of Beach
Vanderpoel, was prominent in Newark
public affairs from 1808 to 1836, and
shortly after his retirement his son, Beach,
took up the father's unfinished work, and
as mayor of the city for two terms and
as a business man for years, added new
lustre to the family name. With the sons
of Beach Vanderpoel came into the fam-

ily new lines of activity, and in the pro-
fessions— law, medicine, divinity and en-
gineering— each bore a man's part, prov-
ing their true mettle and strength of char-
acter.

Beach Vanderpoel was born in Newark,
New Jersey, October 26, 1808, and died
in the same city at the home erected by
himself near the corner of Washington
Place and Halsey street. His early edu-
cation was obtained under Andrew Smith,
then principal of old Newark Academy,
and at the boarding school kept by Cal-
vin S. Crane, at Caldwell, New Jersey.
He did not incline to a professional life,
but at the age of seventeen began a busi-
ness career, becoming a clerk in the dry
goods house of Josiah James & Company,
in New York City. Three years later, in
1828, he entered into partnership with his
brother John, establishing the importing
and wholesale dry goods house of J. & B.
Vanderpoel. The firm occupied a store
in Maiden Lane, and there until 1841 con-
ducted a most successful business. After
the death of his father in 1842, Mr. Van-
derpoel moved his residence from New
York to Newark, first occupying the old
family homestead, corner of Broad and
Division streets, on the present site of the
Continental Hotel, afterward removing
to the brick building he caused to be
erected in 1868 on Washington Place,
near the corner of Halsey street.

After locating permanently in Newark,
he became actively interested in the offi-
cial management of the Morris & Essex
Railroad Company. He was chosen a
director in January, 1842, also was elect-
ed treasurer, and until the leasing of the
road to the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western was one of its most prominent
active officers and managers. It is worthy
of remark that James Vanderpoel, his
father, was one of the original founders
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Beach
Vanderpoel continued a member of the
board of directors until his death. Like
his father in his devotion to public affairs,
Beach Vanderpoel both in New York and
in Newark was ever engaged in all that
pertained to the public good. In Newark
he was especially interested, and during
the years 1846-47 capably and honorably
filled the mayor's office, by will of the
voters, who twice elected him their chief
executive.

He married, March 3, 1834, Miss Fish-
er, of Hightstown, New Jersey, a grand-
daughter of Colonel David Chambers,
who commanded a regiment of Conti-
nentals during the Revolution, leading
them at Trenton and Monmouth. Great
as was the service Beach Vanderpoel ren-
dered Newark as executive citizen, his
best gift to his native city was his five
brilliant sons: William, Beach, Jr., James,
Eugene, Wynant. 1. William, a graduate
of Burlington College and Harvard Law
School, also spent a year in study at the
University of Berlin, Germany. He was
an honored member of the Essex county
bar, was a long time connected with finan-
cial institutions of Newark, and secretary
of the New Jersey Insurance Company.
He was a close student, with a mind of
rare ability and culture, had widely trav-
eled, and was richly endowed with a
wealth of manly qualities. He died No-
vember 2, 1885. 2. Beach, Jr., was a
graduate of Burlington College and Har-
vard Law School, also studied for sev-
eral years at the University of Berlin,
Germany. He was admitted to the Essex
county bar and to the New York bar,
practicing at both, but most of his life
was spent abroad, in European capitals.
3. Dr. James Vanderpoel was a graduate
of Williams College and of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New York.
After obtaining his degree he was con-

nected with the staff of St. Barnabas Hos-
pital and St. Michael's Hospital, Newark,
but later went to Japan, where he was
assistant physician at the Yokohoma Gen-
eral Hospital. He died there, January 14,
1876, in the thirty-fifth year of his age;
his was a life of rare promise, suddenly
terminated. 4. Eugene, of whom is fur-
ther in an extended notice in a following
sketch. 5. Rev. Wynant Vanderpoel was
a graduate of Princeton University, and
a graduate in divinity at Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, New York. He took holy
orders, and became a clergyman of the
Protestant Episcopal church.

VANDERPOEL, Eugene,

Mam of Affairs.

Eugene Vanderpoel, fourth of the sons
of Beach Vanderpoel, was born in New-
ark, New Jersey, in 1844, and there after
a life of great usefulness he died, July 12,
1903, at his residence, Washington Place,
near Halsey street.

He prepared in the public schools and
then entered Princeton College whence he
was graduated. He chose engineering
as his profession, preparing therefor at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
New York. After leaving college he en-
tered the active fields of labor, giving
especial attention to gas manufacture and
distribution. In this field he became pre-
eminent, and was a consulting authority
much sought after. He became president
of the Newark Gas Company, and was its
active, efficient executive until 1895, when
the company became the Newark Consoli-
dated Gas Company. He was an expert
authority on all matters associated with
the manufacture of gas, and as a trained
engineer was of the greatest service to
the company in planning and installing
the lines of the distribution service. He
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Light Association, and a consulting au-
thority on all subjects pertaining to the
use of gas as an illuminant.

In the world of Newark finance he oc-
cupied a similar leading position. He
was a director of the Newark Hanking
Company, and from February 17, 1902,
until his death he was president of the
Howard Savings Institution, succeeding
Frederick Frelinghuysen when the latter
became president of the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company, of which Mr.
Vanderpoel was adjustor. He was a
member of the Board of Trade, and for
the four years preceding his death was
treasurer of the Essex County Board of
Park Commissioners. This was the only
public official position he would accept,
although his friend, Governor Murphy,
offered him an important appointment on
the Court of Errors and Appeals, lie
was a member of the Democratic party
until alienated by the Free Silver doc-
trines that prevailed for a time in that
party, thereafter acting with the Repub-
lican party, but steadfastly declining all
offers of a political nature. He was a
member of the Essex Club, Essex Coun-
ty Country Club, the University of New
York, the Engineers' Club of New York
and the Princeton Club. He had many
friends in these organizations, as he had
elsewhere, his sterling qualities winning
and holding the regard of his fellowmen.

Death came in the dread form of ap-
pendicitis, his daughters both being ab-
sent, one in Europe and the other on a
sick bed at Short Hills. The various
bodies with which he was affiliated and
the institutions with which he was con-
nected all passed resolutions of respect,
and his funeral was attended by a large
number of friends and acquaintances, the
list of honorary pall bearers containing
the names of men distinguished in city,
State and Nation. The Board of Trade

of the city of Newark passed resolutions
that admirably expressed the regard in
which Mr. Vanderpoel was held. The
resolutions were as follows: "'Prominent-
ly identified with the business interests
of the city during all the years of his life,
he attained a prominence in manufactur-
ing which placed him at the head of his
chosen profession, earning by his talent
the reputation of an expert without a
superior. Prominently identified with, the
leading financial institutions of Newark.
his advice, judgment and mental balance
were considered by his associates of a
high order. His opinions were prized
because of his ripened judgment and
acute intelligence. While refusing to
take any active part in political affairs
his advice upon questions of public policy
was often sought." Mr. Vanderpoel was
all his life a member of Trinity Protest-
ant Episcopal Church.

Mr. Vanderpoel married, in 1868, Elea-
nor E. Tiffany, whom he survived four
years. A daughter married (first) How-
ard W. Hayes, (second) Mr. Pennington.
Another daughter married Sheppard
Homans.

ROBERTS, Christopher.

Manufacturer, Man of Fine Qualities.

The life and career of Christopher Rob-
erts, late a distinguished citizen of New-
ark. New Jersey, were but another proof
of the close kinship in blood and spirit,
thought and manner, existing between
the two great members of the Anglo-
Saxon race, the American and English
peoples. For Mr. Roberts was not a
native of New Jersey, nor indeed of the
United States, his parentage being Eng-
lish, and his birth occurring in the city
df Manchester, England, yet his assimila-
tion into the social fabric of his adopted
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he became entirely identified with its life
and traditions, feeling full sympathy for
its ideals and sharing in its characteristic
achievements with its native sons.

Born January 5, 1827, at Manchester,
England, Christopher Roberts passed his
youth and early manhood in his native
land. His education was received at his
father's home in Manchester, where he
enjoyed the advantages of private tutors
and proved himself an apt and ready
scholar. He also attended for a time a
private school at the town of Chorley, a
small place in the immediate vicinity of
Manchester. After completing his studies,
he turned his attention to business activ-
ities, and as a preliminary learned all the
details in connection with the manufac-
ture of rubber, and became associated
with his cousins, the Hopes, of Manches-
ter, who were engaged in that city in the
rubber industry on a large scale. Mr.
Roberts continued this association until
the year 1849, at which time he was
twenty-two years of age. For some time
past his attention had been drawn to the
great opportunities which awaited men of
enterprise and intelligence in the great
western Republic across the sea, and he
determined to try his fortune there. Ac-
cordingly, in the above mentioned year,
he came to America in charge of a cargo
of machinery to be used by the Hopes in
their manufacturing business which they
had established at Providence, Rhode
Island, where they erected a large factory
for the manufacture of rubber thread,
such as is used in the production of
elastic cloth, etc. Mr. Roberts became a
party to this enterprise, and once more
found himself in association with his
cousins, this time, however, in the New
World. Eventually, however, he with-
drew, and went to Middletown, Connec-
ticut, where he engaged in the rubber
making business on his own account, his

specialties being stationer's rubber and
druggist's supplies. He did not remain a
great while in Middletown, however, but
from there came to Newark, New Jersey,
where he permanently settled, and built
up a very large industrial business, manu-
facturing principally stationer's rubber,
and continued there until his death on the
20th day of September, 1903. He built
a large factory in the New Jersey city
which was, however, no more than suffi-
cient to house his rapidly developing
operations. He continued actively em-
ployed in this line until his death, the con-
cern being known in later years as the
C. Roberts Rubber Company.

Mr. Roberts did not, however, confine
his interests entirely to his industrial ac-
tivities, but was associated with other
important concerns in Newark, especially
the Essex County National Bank of that
city, of which he was a director. While
most keenly interested in political issues
and a staunch supporter of the principles
and policies of the Republican party, he
confined his activities in this direction to
the exercise of the franchise and to such
personal influence as he could exert in
his capacity as private citizen. He was
politically unambitious, avoiding rather
than seeking office and indeed consistent-
ly refused to consider emerging from pri-
vate life. Mr. Roberts was naturally of a
retiring disposition, and found his chief
pleasure by his own fireside. One of his
strongest tastes was that for books, and
he was a great and wide reader. He was
an Episcopalian in his religious belief, and
a prominent member of the Trinity Epis-
copal Parish in Newark, of which he was
a vestryman for a number of years. An-
other of his activities was that in connec-
tion with charitable movements and en-
terprises. He was a great lover of dumb
animals, and for a time was president of
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to Animals of Newark. 1 te did not spend
a great deal of his time in social activities,
as he found his chief pleasure and recre-
ation in his own household. His clubs
were the Essex Club of Newark, and the
Essex County Country Club. He was
also a member of the Washington Asso-
ciation of New Jersey.

In the spring of 1851 Mr. Roberts was
united in marriage with Mary Campbell,
in the City of New York, on her arrival
from England, whtre she was born in
1825. They were the parents of three
children as follows; Frederick Duncan,
born at Middletown, Connecticut; Ed-
ward Redfern, born at Newark, New Jer-
sey ; and Emily Elizabeth, born at New-
ark. New Jersey, married George S. Coxe,
and to this union there were born two
children : George R. and Campbell R.

UEBELACKER, Armin, M. D.,

Physician.

Among those whose professional repu-
tation was exceptional in Morristown,
New Jersey, was the late Dr. Armin
Uebelacker, a distinguished physician of
German birth, whose justly merited posi-
tion in professional and social circles was
due to his remarkable talents and the suc-
cess with which he met in his chosen
career. A close student of human nature,
as well as of the technicalities of his pro-
fession, he applied the knowledge which
he thus acquired with singular felicity,
and with the result that there was no
more popular or progressive practitioner
in the town. Courteous and kindly in
manner, quiet and self-contained, he in-
spired confidence in those whom he would
heal; and he was welcomed wherever he
went, not only as the mitigator of bodily
ills, but as a true friend and counsellor.

Dr. Arm.in Uebelacker, son of John
George and Catherine (Wehner) Uebe-

lacker, was born in Voelkershausen, Ba-
varia, Germany, April 8, 1831, and died
at his home in Morristown, New Jersey,
February 6, 1914. After the necessary
preparation in elementary schools he be-
came a student at the gymnasium (corre-
sponding to our high school), in Schwein-
furth, Bavaria, and from there went to the
university at Erlangen, from which he
was graduated with honor. His musical
education as a pianist was a most thor-
ough one, and for a short time he studied
medicine. He then decided that America
offered better opportunities for advance-
ment, for a progressive and energetic phy-
sician, and determined to finish his medical
studies in this country. He accordingly
came to the United States in 1851, and for
a time made use of his musical proficiency,
and gave instruction in this art. Again
turning to the medical profession, he took
up his studies in this field at the Homoeo-
pathic College of the City of New York,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1871, after a three years' course. He
at once established himself in the prac-
tice of his profession at Schooleys moun-
tain, New Jersey, but after a short time,
removed to Morristown, with which he
was identified from that time. He be-
came one of the best known and most
highly respected physicians of that sec-
tion, and his friends were legion. Not
only was he honored and respected by his
patients, but by the business men of his
chosen city. He never made a specialty
of any particular branch of the healing
art, but his love for children was such an
integral part of his being that he seemed
especially fitted to take care of them and
their ailments. He was a member of the
State Homoeopathic Society, of which he
served, at various times, as president ; he
was a charter member of the State Board
of New Jersey Medical Examiners, had
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urer, and at the time of his death was the
incumbent of the last-named office. He
took an active interest in the public
affairs of the community, and was ever
ready to lend his hearty cooperation to
furthering any plan which tended toward
the betterment or development of the
community. He was devoted to his pro-
fession, and when engaged on any case,
his mind was filled with that to the ex-
clusion of all thought on trivial subjects.
He was a devout member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Morristown, and
a liberal contributor to its support.

Dr. Uebelacker married, June 14, 1859,
Mary C. Miller, still residing in Morris-
town, and a daughter of the Rev. George
B. Miller, D. D.. and Delia (Snyder) Mil-
ler, and a descendant of a family of dis-
tinction among the Huguenots. There
were four children of this marriage, of
whom there is now living one son:
Charles F., an electrical, civil and me-
chanical engineer, who was graduated
from Princeton University in the class of
1889. He is a member of the firm of Ford,
Bacon & Davis, of New York City, while
his home is in Hackensack, New Jersey.
He married Adele Adams, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and they have sons : Armin Adams
and David Adams. Rev. George B. Mil-
ler, father of Mrs. Uebelacker, was a life-
long minister of the Lutheran church. He
was professor of theology at Hartwick
Seminary for forty years, at the same time
continuing to preach in the Lutheran
church. When Dr. Uebelacker died, the
State Board of Medical Examiners passed
resolutions as follows :

Humbly bowing to the will of Divine Provi-
dence to give expression to our deep sorrow
over the death of our friend and companion,
Armin Uebelacker, M. D., who died on the Sixth
day of February, 1014, we mourn him as a genial
friend, and companion, a man of high and honor-
able instincts, of the most estimable character,
of a sunny nature that made his presence always

a pleasure, as a leading spirit in all our associa-
tions and gatherings, and as one whose conduct
and example were for all that was honorable and
good. His long and busy life was one of charity
and unselfishness. Mere words cannot express
our sorrow over the loss of such a friend and
companion, but in this inadequate manner we
desire to place our feelings on record. In deep-
est sorrow over the loss of one whose memory
will ever remain with us.

(Signed) The Committee.

ZUSI, Edward,

Enterprising Business Man.

Edward Zusi, one of Newark's promi-
nent manufacturers and business men,
was born in that city in the year 1850, and
for the whole of his life of sixty-three
years was intimately associated with its
life in many of its aspects, having made
it at once his home and place of business.
For many years Mr. Zusi lived at No. 263
South Seventh street, in the district
known as the West End, where he had
always been an active and important
factor in every phase of its advancement
and uplift. He obtained an elementary
education in the local public schools up
to the age of twelve years and then found
employment with an elder brother, who
at the time was operating a brass foundry
in Mechanic street. In this line of work
Mr. Zusi spent his youth, and upon reach-
ing his majority purchased from his
brother the business and continued it until
the time of his death. In the course of
time Mr. Zusi built up a large and lucra-
tive business.

Besides his interest in his own manu-
facturing concern, he was associated with
many business and financial enterprises
in Newark, and for more than forty years
had been a prominent figure in the indus-
trial and civic life of the community. He
was an expert in building and loan mat-
ters, and for more than thirteen years had
been president of the West End Associa-

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tion, one of the largest concerns of its
kind in New Jersey and gave freely to it
of his time and energy. It was one of his
greatest causes for pride that its opera-
tion was so successful and the benefits
accruing to its members so substantial.
He was one of the organizers of the Wesl
End Club, ami its treasurer from its in-
ception to his own death. He was a di-
rector of the Ironbound Trust Company.
But -Mr. Zttsi's activities were not con-
fined to the commercial side of the city's
life. He was a lifelong member of the
Democratic party, and deeply interested
in the politics of the community, and a
few years ago found time to participate
actively in them. In 1897 he was elected
to the old board of education, and upon
the expiration of his term was appointed
to the same board to complete the unex-
pired term of a deceased member. .Mr.
Zusi and his family were members of the
Catholic church.

Something over two years ago Air.
Zusi was attacked by a complication of
internal ailments of a very serious nature,
and shortly after underwent a grave sur-
gical operation in the German Hospital
of Newark. The operation, which was an
extremely delicate and difficult one. was
nevertheless successful and brought such
relief to him that in a few weeks ho was
able once more to attend to his various
duties. Even at the time, however, it was
realized that this relief could be but a
temporary one, and accordingly, but a few
months before his death, the expected re-
currence of his trouble made its appear-
ance. Mr. Zusi did not give up his active
life, however, until within a few weeks of
his death, when the symptoms became
much graver, and these, indeed, increased
in gravity so that, by his family at least,
the end was expected for some time be-
fore its actual arrival. His death finally
occurred May 24, 1913, at his residence

on South Seventh street, and caused wide-
spread sorrow, especially throughout the
West End section. His funeral services
were held in the Church of St. Antoninus,
on South Orange avenue and South Ninth
street, where a solemn high mass of
requiem was sung.

In Edward Zusi, Newark has lost .1
type of the old-fashioned yet progressive
business men ; old fashioned in the sub-
stantial integrity of his ideals, yet pro-
gressive enough to adopt modern im-
provements in the conduct of affairs. In
all the offices of trust which he held at
various times, his conduct was above re-
proach, alike on the score of rectitude and
intelligence. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Celestine B. Zusi, and his two sons
— Leonard B., treasurer of the Paddock-
Zusi Motor Car Company, and Norman
E., treasurer and secretary of the Meis-
Selbach-Catucci Manufacturing Company.

MARSHALL, William,

Manufacturer, Enterprising Citizen.

The interest that attaches to the career
of William Marshall, long known as a
varnish manufacturer of Newark, is that
which is always felt in the rise of a man
to high and commanding position, when
such estate is gained through the exercise
of qualities of industry, foresight, judg-
ment, and honor. That for thirty years
Mr. Marshall held leading position in his
line, combatting and overcoming worthy
competition and almost ruinous trade con-
ditions, was a triumph of business sagac-
ity and executive ability, and his col-
leagues and associates rendered him the
tribute of implicit faith and confidence.
Distinguished as was his record in the
world of business, his accomplishments
wear greater lustre when placed by the
side of his devoted service in nobler walks
of life, his consecrated support of re-

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ligious work, and the fine fraternal spirit
he brought into his relations with his fel-
lows. His life was one in which were
blended virtues of strength and beauty,
and his influence was ever a potent force
on the side of right.

He was born in Leith, Scotland, Janu-
ary 9, 1848, and that place was his home
until 1848, when his parents moved to
London. In London his education was
obtained, and on April 13, 1859, a lad of
eleven years, he began his activity in
varnish manufacture, becoming employed
in the establishment of John Edward Ives,
member of the family which holds such
an important place in the early history
of varnish manufacture. He applied him-
self to the mastery of the art of varnish
making with energetic industry, with re-
sults the full value of which did not show
until later years. Not long after attain-
ing his majority he left home, in 1870
journeying to Canada, obtaining a po-
sition in the Montreal house of R. C.
Jamieson & Company, also varnish manu-
facturers, and in March, 1871, resigning
his position with the Canadian concern
to enter the employ of William Tilden
Blodgett, who at that time was the largest
manufacturer of varnish in the United
States. Having thus supplemented his
thorough English training with a study
of the best American methods, Mr. Mar-
shall established in independent opera-
tions in Newark, adopting the best of
both systems, and from 1872 until his
death continued as a manufacturer. The
financial panic of 1873 was upon the coun-
try before he had little more than started
his activities, but, with stout heart and
hopeful vision, he met the distressing con-
ditions everywhere prevalent at that time,
and when confidence was once more re-
stored in the world of trade the expansion
of his business began. The purity and
high quality of his products everywhere
attracted favorable comment, and as the

demand for his varnishes grew his promi-
nence among manufacturers increased in
the same measure.

In 1890 Mr. Marshall relinquished the
proud and independent position to which
he had ascended in his line, and led in
the organization of the Anglo-American
Varnish Company, capitalized at $100,000,
George M. Ballard and William F. Jack-
son becoming the principal officers of the
new company as president and treasurer
respectively. With the large means then
at his command, Mr. Marshall directed a
campaign of still greater expansion and
development, new factories being erected
to supply the wider markets reached, and
exceptional prosperity attended all of the
company's operations. During his entire
active life Mr. Marshall remained in close
touch with all departments of the busi-
ness, and was able at any time to suggest
more efficient methods in factory as well
as in office, to converse with masterly
knowledge with the chemists regarding .
the proportions and strength of the ingre-
dients of their products, or to point out
exact defects in a grade of varnish
brought to him for inspection. His repu-
tation as an authority on varnish manu-
facture was widespread, and he was the
much sought adviser of vehicle and fur-
niture manufacturers who desired the
best finish for their goods. One of his
few outside business interests was as a
director of the Asbury Park Trust Com-
pany, while through business channels
he gained membership in the New York
Railway Club, the Railway Business
Men's Association, the New England
Railroad Club, the Western Railroad
Club, and associate membership in the
Master Car and Locomotive Painters'
Association of the United States and
Canada. Mr. Marshall was also an in-
terested and active member of the New-
ark, New Jersey, Board of Trade.

During Mr. Marshall's long residence
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in Newark, where his important business
interests were located, he became identi-
fied with many branches of the city life,
discharging the duties of good citizenship
with eager promptness but never entering
public life. Me was a loyal churchman,
belonging to the Methodist Episcopal
church, for a time a member of the con-
gregation of St. Paul's, then uniting with
Centenary, of which he was a member
for eighteen years. His connection with
this church was broken by his moving
from the city in 1909 to his new residence
at Aslmry Park, New Jersey. In his new
home Mr. Marshall at once was entrusted
with weighty responsibilities, and at his
death was a member of the official board
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
and a trustee of the local branch of the
Young Men's Christian Association. His
death occurred December 1, 1912, and
was mourned with loving sincerity by his
friends of long standing in Newark and
by those of Asbury Park newly bound to
him by the graces of his personality and
the rugged worth of his character. His
remains were buried in Mount Pleasant
Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey.

He married, in 1882, Ida Pendleton, of
Newark, who survives him.

APPLEGATE, John Stilwell,

Lawyer, Legislator.

John Stilwell Applegate, a prominent
lawyer of New Jersey, and who served as
State Senator in 1882, 1883, 1884, was
born August 6, 1837, in the township of
Middletown, Monmouth county. New Jer-
sey. He died November 10, 1916. He
was a descendant of Thomas Applegate,
who lived at Weymouth, Massachusetts,
1635, and at Gravesend, Long Island, 1647.
Thomas Applegate was one of the paten-
tees of Flushing, Long Island, in the
patent dated October 19, 1647, issued by

Governor Kieft, and he is the progenitor
of the Applegate family in America. I lis
son, Thomas Applegate, Jr., moved from
Gravesend, Long Island, to Monmouth
county in 1(174. where he settled, taking
up land from the Indians and afterward
receiving a warrant therefor from the
proprietors. He married a daughter oi
Sergeant Richard Gibbons, one of the
patentees of the noted Nicolls or Mon-
mouth patent. Other ancestors are Rich-
ard Hartshorne, James Bowne, William
Lawrence, John Throckmorton, Nicholas
Stilwell and John Bray, all of whom were
pioneer settlers of Monmouth county and
bore a leading part in colonial history.

The father of John Stilwell Applegate
was Joseph Stdwell Applegate, five gen-
erations removed from the original Thom-
as, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, a promi-
nent and successful farmer of Middletown
township and a grandson of John Stilwell,
quartermaster of the First Regiment of
the Monmouth militia in the Revolution-
ary War. He (the father) was born in
1789, and in 1857 built a residence at Red
Hank, which he occupied until his death
in 1881, at the age of ninety-two years.
The mother of John Stilwell Applegate
was Ann Bray, a descendant of the Rev.
John I'.ray, a Baptist minister from Eng-
land, who founded the Baptist church and
donated building and lot therefor at the
village now called Holmdel, but long
known as Bray's Meeting House, and
subsequently as Baptisttown. She died
in 1878, at the age of eighty-two years.

The subject of this sketch was gradu-
ated at Colgate University' (then Madison
University), Hamilton. New York, in
1858, and admitted to the New Jersey bar
in 1861. He began and continued the ex-
ercise of his profession at Red Bank. New
Jersey, until his death, practicing in the
State and Federal courts. He was con-
nected with many reported cases of public

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interest, and represented as counsel some
of the most important corporate and pri-
vate interests in the State. In 1875 he
formed a copartnership with Henry M.
Nevius, later judge of the Hudson Circuit
Court, which partnership continued until
1880. In 1884 Frederick W. Hope be-
came associated with him as partner,
which relation continued until iyoi, when
he and his son, John Stilwell Applegate,
Jr., formed a partnership in the name of
John S. Applegate & Son.

Mr. Applegate during the Civil War
was commissioned as special deputy of
the Union League of America, and or-
ganized a number of chapters of that pa-
triotic organization. In 1862 he was
nominated and elected by the Republican
party as school superintendent of Shrews-
bury township, and was three times re-
elected to the same office. He served as
a member of the State Republican com-
mittee in the successful gubernatorial
campaign of Marcus L. Ward in 1865.
He was president of the first building and
loan association of the shore section of
Monmouth county for several years, and
in 1875, additional banking facilities being
a plain necessity of Red Bank, he initiated
a movement which resulted in the organ-
ization of the Second National Bank of
Red Bank, and was selected as the first
president of the new institution, holding
the position until his resignation in 1887.
He was a strong factor in the events
which led to the incorporation of his town
in 1871, and was elected as one of the
members of its first governing body, and
chosen as its chief the following years.
In 1881 he was elected State Senator, be-
ing the first Republican to represent Mon-
mouth county in that position, and re-
ceiving a majority of nearly one thousand
votes in a county at that time regarded
as the Gibraltar of New Jersey Democ-
racy. Upon the organization in 1882 of

the New York & Atlantic Highlands Rail-
road Company, he was elected as its presi-
dent, serving in that capacity until its
consolidation with the Central Railroad
system.

In the New Jersey Senate he introduced
and passed under the pressure of his influ-
ence many important measures; among
others a bill requiring the public printing
of the State to be put out by contract to
the lowest bidder, instead of farming it
out to favorites as a reward to partisan
service, a system which had then been in
vogue for many years. This bill incurred
the bitter hostility of many newspapers
in the State, but, notwithstanding-, its in-
herent justice commanded the unanimous
support of both houses, and it became a
law, effecting a public saving of $50,000
annually. He also drafted an introduced
a bill of great public convenience and util-
ity, authorizing the smaller towns and
villages of this State to construct and
maintain water works. This bill became
a law. whereby many of these municipali-
ties have organied and now operate effi-
cient systems of public water supply
Under this act he was appointed in 1884
a member of the first board of water com-
missioners of Red Bank, which office he
held continuously until the year 1900.

Among other positions of honor and
trust which Mr. Applegate held were
those of director of the Second National
Bank of Red Bank ; director and treasurer
of the Red Bank Gas Light Company;
president of the board of trustees of the
First Baptist Church of Shrewsbury, at
Red Bank; and trustee of the Monmouth
Battle Monument Association. He was
a member of the American Bar Associ-
ation ; one of the board of managers of
the New Jersey Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution ; a charter mem-
ber and trustee and at the time of his de-
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Historical Association; and of the .Mon-
mouth County Bar Association. He was
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
a life member of the Delta Genealogical
and Biographical Society; an honorary
member of the Regimental Association of
the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New
York State Volunteers and a member of
the Xew Jersey State Board of Com-
merce. In 1880 he delivered the annual
alumni address at Colgate University.
lie published in 1893 a memorial volume
of George Arrow-smith, lieutenant-colonel
of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh
Xew York State Volunteers, killed at the
battle of Gettysburg; and in 1910. "Early
Courts and Lawyers of Monmouth
County."

lie married, in 1805, Deborah Cath-
arine Allen, (laughter of Charles Gordon
Allen, a prominent citizen of Monmouth
county and a resident of Red Bank. IBs
surviving children are: Annie, a graduate
of Vassar College in [891, and the wife
of Professor Charles II. A. Wager, num-
ber of the faculty of Oberlin College ;
John Stilwell Applegate, Jr., a graduate
of Colgate University (formerly Madison
University), and Harvard Law School;
and Katharine Trafford Applegate, a
graduate' of Vassal" College, class of 1897.

TREWIN, William,

Honored Citizen.

There is no richer blood than is found
in the sturdy English yeomanry. There
is no better earthly heritage than an hon-
orable and saintly ancestry. William
Trewin was born heir to these treasures,
in Woolwich, County of Kent. England,
on March 21, 1845. lie was the son
of Thomas I. and Mary Anne Phillips
Trewin, of the best and purest English
descent. Thomas J. Trewin was a pillar
in the local church, having been converted

to the British Wesleyan faith, a man of
strong religious principle and deep spirit-
ual conviction, the builder and founder of
one of the first Wolcyan Methodist
chapels erected in London.

In 1857 he brought his family to Canada,
residing for a time in Toronto. Later
the) moved to the United States, and
settled in Xew Jersey in 1859. From
childhood William Trewin seemed by na-
ture destined for a career of usefulness.
In- education was now continued in the
schools of Hackensack. In the second
year of the Civil War, being too young
to enter the army but desirous of serving
hi- country, he applied and was accepted
in the Commissary Department, serving
until the close of the war. He had the
privilege of meeting President Lincoln, a
memory which he greatly cherished. At
the close of the war he entered the Bryant
and Stratton Commercial College of New
York City, from which he was graduated
in 1867. He accepted a position with the
"Xew York Scientific American
zine," retaining that position until 1868.
when he was united in marriage with
Miss Edith II. Fry. daughter of Judge
Asa Fry, of Jersey City. Xew Jersey. Of
this marriage there were two children.
William Clarence and Albert Phillips
Trewin.

Although of English birth, his resi-
dence here and his love for American in-
stitutions prompted him in 1868 to apply
for citizenship in this country, to which
he gave a most loyal and devoted allegi-
ance, firmly believing in the eternal prin-
ciples of liberty, equality and justice upon
which this government is founded. In
politics Mr. Trewin was a Republican,
and cast his first vote for President ( irant

People prosper and nations advance ac-
cording to the wisdom of the policies and
measures which govern them. A civiliza-
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basic truths of the religious and moral
life which enters it. It was in these fields
of Christian endeavor that Mr. Trewin
did his most wise and beneficent work.

In 1869 Mr. Trewin settled in Elizabeth
and started a business career which con-
tinued and prospered for half a century.
For over twenty years he was connected
with the Tide Water Oil Company, and
was a recognized authority in his chosen
line. In 1896 he established the Trewin
Supply Company. In 1914 he sold the
business to the firm of L. F. Hersh &
Brother, but continued as manager of this
department until the time of his death.
Mr. Trewin was one of the charter mem-
bers of Court Elizabeth, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, but later became
affiliated with Court Washington. He
was also connected with Resolute Coun-
cil, No. 808, Royal Arcanum.

In 1879 Mr. Trewin was called upon to
mourn the loss of his faithful wife, and
some years later was united in marriage
to Miss Elizabeth Sargent, of Jersey City.
New Jersey. By this marriage he had one
daughter, Zillah May.

As from England the winds of emigra-
tion had blown sparks of Methodism over
to this country to found the first Metho-
dist church in New York City, so the same
influence sweeping over the life of this
man sent out a stream of glowing embers
wherever he went, and caused him to take
an active part in the religious life of the
community of which he was an honored
and respected townsman. Mr. Trewin is
believed to have been the last member of
the original official board of the old Eliza-

beth Avenue Methodist Church. He was
one of the founders of St. James Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, and re-
mained a member of its official board from
its inception until his death. For fifty
years he was a teacher in the Sunday
school, and one of the organizers and pro-
moters of a strong Men's Bible class.

A consistent Christian gentleman, al-
ways possessed of a clear sense of duty,
he truly lived for others. Whatever he
may have wrought by ready mind and
strong hand, he wrought more by the
gentle force of his character. He won
and held his place of high esteem by
ceaseless industry and the graces which
commanded loyal respect and love.

His life grew fragrant with the inner soul;
And weary folk who passed him in the street
Saw Christ's love beam from out the wistful

eyes,
And had new confidence in God and man.
And so he worked, and lived, and longed, and

loved,
Did noble deeds, not knowing what he did,
Thought noble thoughts, unconscious of their

worth,
And lived that greatness he desired in vain.

His greatest monument is set up in the
hearts and memories of those who knew
and loved him.

Mr. Trewin died suddenly in the Eliza-
beth General Hospital, on December 4,
1916, following a stroke of apoplexy. He
is survived by his widow, Elizabeth
Trewin ; two sons, William Clarence and
Albert Phillips Trewin ; and one daugh-
ter, Zillah May Trewin. A sister, Mrs.
F. C. Ludey, of Bayonne. also survives
him.

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eagle displayed argent, ducally gorged or. Motto : Dcum cole, regent serva.

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a fleur-de-lis in base or. Crest: A vol proper. The Ward coat-of-arms: Azure, a cross
flory or. Crest: A wolf's head erased proper, langued gules. Motto: Sub cruce salus.

MARSH— Pp. 1-12— Mary Catherine (Moore) Marsh married (second) Orville T. Waring, of
Plainfield, New Jersey, April 26, 1916.

PARSONS— Vol. II., p. 214, 2nd col., 34th line— The date April 20, 1827, should be April 20,

1727; p. 215, 2nd col., 36th line, date February 17, 1869, should be February 17, 1891.
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2. Argent, a fess embattled, counter-embattled gules. 3. Azure, three ducal crowns or. 4.
Azure, three chevronels argent. Crest : A tower with flames issuing therefrom, all proper.
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Page 174, 1st col., 41st line: Children of Nicholas and Susanna (Roeters) Evertson :
George, quartermaster in General Elias Dayton's regiment, Revolutionary army; John;
Jacob, married Margaret Bloom; Margaret, married James Morgan, and their son, Major-
general James Morgan, served in the Revolution; Mary, married the Rev. Wheeler Case;
Susannah, married Joseph Ellason; Elizabeth, married William Buckalew.

Page 174, 2nd col., 12th line: Children of Jacob and Margaret (Bloom) Evertson: John,
married Julia Matthews; Nicholas, married Eliza Howe; George Bloom, died young; George
Bloom, married (first) Cornelia Tappen, (second) Frances Mary Nicoll; Jacob Roeters,
died on the Island of Tobago; Walter, married Eliza Roosevelt; Margaret, married Gov-
ernor John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut; Catharine, died young; Catharine, married the
Rev. Isaac Lewis; Mary or Maria, married ( first) Justin Foote, (second) William Davies.

Page 179, 2nd col., 42nd line: Children of Milan H. and Olive Evertson (Woodward)
Hulbert : Olive Woodward, born December 19, 1003; Helen Mortimer, May 9, 1907; Ethel
Plunkett, February 23, 1910; Milan H. (3), April 2, 1911; Adele Evertson, January 9. IQI4-

INDEX

NOTE — Names marked with an asterisk (*) sec on text page.

Applegate, Deborah C, 295
John S.. 293
John S.. Jr., 295
Joseph S., 293
Thomas, 293

Baer, Frederick J., 269

Jacob F., 269

Louisa, 270
Bailey. John, 181. 182, 183

Nathan, 182

Thomas, 181
Balbach, Edward. 117

Edward, Jr., 1 19, 120

Julia A.. [22

Margaretta, 119
Bassett, Allan L., 104

Caroline, 195

Carroll P.. 195

John, K)4
Bayeux, Thomas, 173
Beardsley, George A., 33, 34

Henrietta B., 34

I [enrietta C, 34

Justice W., 33
Beasley, Catherine A., 232

Chauncy H., 232

Frances, 232

Jessie, 233

Mercer. 230, 231
Beeckmann, Marten, 177
Beekman. George C. 261, 262

Jacob T. B., 261

Laura B., 265

Maarten, 261
Bennett, Emeline, 189

Jared, 189

Stephen, 188

Volney G., 188, 189

Berg, Anna, 103

Charles, 103

Fred, 103

Frederick, 101

George, 101

George C, 103

! [enry, 103
Bloom, 174
Boudinot, Elie, 172

Jean, 172
Bowne, Andrew, 86

John. Capt.. 84,88

Obadiah, 86

William, 84
I'.ray, Daniel, Gen.. 134

James, 136
Butterworth, Henry, 31

Selina S., 31

Theron H., 31

Callear, John. 45

Kate, 46

Mary, 46

Moses, 45
Campbell, Charles W., 108

Mary F.. 198

Wallace S.. 198
Carpenter, John, 257, 258, 259. 260

John C. 259

Mary, 261

Sarah L.. 261

William. 2?j
Chadwick, Francis, 124, 125, 126

John, 125

Margaret A., 127

Taber, 126
Champion, Joseph S., 32

Rachel A., 32
Chetwood, Anna. 154

299

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

Blanche G., 154

Decker, Abraham, 152

George R., Dr., 154

Caton L., 152, 153

John, 154

Harrison, 152

Cleaveland. Aaron, 162

Jacob, 152

Aaron, Capt., 162

Johannis, 152

Erastus, Gen., 163

S. Alice, 153

Moses, 162, 163

De Normandie, Abram, 70

*Coles, Abraham, 209

Andre, 66, 69

Emilie S., 209

Jean, 66, 67

Jonathan A. (J. Ackerman), Dr., 209 Joseph, 68

Condit, Daniel, 116

Laurent, 66

Peter, 115

Michel, 68

Samuel, 115, 116

William, 71

Congar, Anna E., 79

Deshler, Charles D., 234, 2^

Bruen H., 78

Johann, 235

Eliza, 79

John, 235

Samuel, 78

Mary M., 236

Conover, Cornelius R., 90

Dilts, Daniel, 77

Cornelius W., 89

Elijah N., 78

Gerret, 89

Margaret R., 92

Emery, Alia, 55

Rulof C, 90

John R., 53, 54

William G., 89

William P., 53

Wolfert, 88

Evans, John, 227

Cook, Abiel, 57

Mary E., 228

Carrie H., 59

Evertson, Evert, 173, 174

Ellis, 57

George B.. 174

Frank M., Dr., 59

*Jacob R., 174

James, 57

Johan, 173

Joseph S., Dr., 57, 58

Margaret, 174

Silas C, 57

♦Nicholas, 173

Coxe, Emily E., 289

George S., 289

Fargie, 172

Crawford, Catherine C, 88

Ferguson, John, Rev., 244

Charles V., 84

Margaret S., 246

George, 83

Mary V., 246

Jamesanna L., 84

Flanigen, Julia P., 107

John, 81, 82

William A., 105, 106

Leah, 90

William C, 106

William, 83

Flint, Alvin, 190

William H., 81, 83

James, 190

Crosby, Harriet E., 279

John, 190

Henry B., 276

Lewis W., 190

Pauline F., 279

Lottie A., 191

Watson, 276

Myron E., 190

300

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

Samuel, 190

Walter A., 189, 190
Floyd, Richard, Col., 169
French, Charles, 15

Frazee, 15

Samuel, 15

Thomas, 15

Uriah, 16

Gales, Joseph, 100

Julia L., 100

Weston R., 100
Gifford, Archer, 195, 196, ic

Charles L. C, 195, 197

Frank \Y., 198

George E., 197

Helen M., 198

John A., 197

John, Capt.. 196

Louisa C, 197

Philip A., 197

William M., 198
Godley, Augustus, 275

John F., 274. 275

Sarah E., 276

William, 274
Guerin, George B., 30

Isabella, 30

Sarah L., 30

William H., 30

Hall. Albert. 108

Isaac A., 108, 109

Minnie, in

Vaugn, in
Hann, Augustus P., 59, 61

Jacob, 60

Laura W., 61

Philip. 60

Philip H., 60

William, 59
Hedden. Abial. 94

Albert E.. 97

Albert H., 98

Charles I., 156

Clarence M., 154, 157

Edward, 93, 155

Elvira V., 96

Gerard, 155

Harriet, 97

Israel, 156

Jared, 93, 155

Jonathan, 94, 156

Joseph, 93, 155

Jotham, 156

Mary E., 97

Nellie F., 158

Robert E., 97

Samuel S., 94

Yiner J., 93, 95
Henry, Evan J., 200, 201

Francis M., 201

Henry, 201

Lucy M., 201

Thomas, 201

Thomas M., 201

William, 201
Hinchliffe, John, 80

Josephine, 81

Lorctta. 81

William F., 80
Holland, Edward, 170

Henry, 171

Henry, Capt., 170
Hooper, Daniel, 192

Elizabeth, 192

Robert L., 192
Hope, Helen C. 267

Reuben, 265

Washington L., 265, 266
♦Hopper, Abraham, Dr.. 47, 48

Benjamin W., 267

Garret, 241
* Henry A., Dr., 47. 49

Jacob, 241

Jacob I., 242

John, 240

John A., 267

John I., 241

John. Judge, 243
♦John W., Dr., 47, 50

Maria C, 50

301

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

Mary A., 244
Howe, Albert E., 38

Edith S., 38

Elizabeth, 38

Hester H., 38

James J., 38

John, 37

Matthew, 37
Hughes, Malcolm, 40

Mary G., 40

Presmul, 40

Robert D., 39

Robert D., Jr., 40
Hunt, Edward, 276

Erne. 276
Husk. Abraham, 281

Adeline, 282

James H., 281

John, 281
Hyde, Mary C, 22

Ovid A., Dr., 22

Imlay, Gideon T., 28

Irene C, 28

Lewis T., 27, 28
hick, Emeline S., 254

Job, 253

John, 252

John S., Gen., 252, 253

William, Gen., 252, 253

Jackson, Amelia, 229

James, 228
Johnson, Alice L., 14

John L., 12, 13

Mary F., 17

Sarah A., 14

William P., 13
Johnston, Emma E., yy

Henry, 75, 76

Joseph, 76

Joseph D., -j-j

Philip, 76

Samuel, 76
Jones, Clark, 47

Clinton V., 47

Henry, 46
Julia A., 47
Levi S., 47
Merbeth, 46
Walter, 47
William V., 46
Judd, Elizur, 147
George B., 147
William, 147

Keeler, Anna, 43

Morris H., 42, 43

Thomas F., 43
Kennedy, Archibald, 148
Kenyon, Angeline D., 99

•Charles C, 99

David R., 98

J. C, 98

Mary E., 99

Palmer, 98
Kilburn, Abby, 115, 116

Charles F., 112, 114

Ebenezer, 114

Gershom, 112, 114

Grace, 115

Jabez D., 114

John, 113

Thomas, 112, 113

Thomas D., 114
Kimball, Charles A., 36, 37

Clara A., 37

Eugene M., 37

Myron J., 35, 36

William, 35

Lane, Emma, 44

Isaac, 44

Susan, 45

William, 44
Longstreet, Dirck, 130, 131

Richard, 131

Stoffel, 129

Theophilus, 129
Lookermans, 169
Lyons, Lewis J., 203

Hannah M., 204

Mary A., 204

302

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

McLaughlin, Matthew, Gen., 35
Macwithey, Amasa A., Dr., 26

Isabel, 27

John, 26

Mary H., 27
Marsh, Craig A., 3, 7

Frazee, 5

Joseph, 4
*Mary C, 11

Saul, 3, 4

Warren, 6

William, 5
Marshall, Ida, 293

William, 291
Martin, Isaac, 205
Mason, Daisy C, 273

James M.. 271

Victor L., 270, 271
Miller, Enoch, 104

Jane, 105

John, 104

Josiah, 105

J. W'ickliff, 104, 105

Samuel, 104

William, 104
Mockridge, Abraham, 233

Carolina V., 234

Oscar A., Dr., 234

Oscar B., 233
Muir, Alexander, 79

Alexander W., 80

A. Louise, 80

Cyrus H., 80

Edward A., 79

Harold E., 80
Mulligan, George D., 284

Hugh, 283

James R., 284

Mary E., 283

Patrick F., 282, 283
Munn. Asa B., 199

Benjamin, 199

David, 199

Elizabeth P., 200

Joseph L., 199

Lewis, 199

Murray, George C, 17, 18, 22
Joseph, 17
Mary C, 21
William, 17
William W., 18

Nenninger, Anna B., 123

Franz, 123

Peter F., 123
New man, < leorge, 254

John, 254

Mary F., 256
Nicoll, Benjamin, 166

Benjamin, Jr., 167

Matthias, Capt., 166

Samuel, Dr., 167

William, Hon., 166

Ogden, John. 34
Mary S., 35
Morgan I... 34
Samuel G., 34
Sydney X., 34, 35
Uzal, Rev., 34

Papin, 173
Park, John, 186

Robert, 184, 185

Samuel, 186

Thomas, 185
Parker. George, 133

Joseph, 133

Joseph, Capt., 133

Josiah, 133

Peter, [33

William, 133
Parry. Harriet E., 52

Samuel, 50

Samuel, Rev., 50
Perinchief, Laura, 44

Morris K., 43

Percy, Rev., 44
l\rry, Adela, 24

Christopher R.. 279

Edmund, 22

Eugenia, 281

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

Isabella, 24

Oliver H., 279, 280

Samuel E., Capt., 22, 23
Price, Benjamin, 146

Daniel, 146, 147

Matthias, 146
Putnam, Eleazer, 160

Elijah, Dr., 160
*Erastus G., 159, 161

Hamilton, 160

Henry, Capt., 160

John, 160

John, Capt., 160

Mary N., 161, 163, 164

Nicholas, 160

Randolph, Edward, 122

Emily C, 144

Enoch M., 139

Lewis V. F., 139, 140
Redfin, William, 186
Richards, Jeremiah J., 15

Uriah F., 14, 16
Risk, James, 72

James B., Dr., 73, 74

Mary B., 75

Sophia, "]},

William H., Dr., 71, 72
Roberts, Christopher, 287, 288

Mary, 289
Roebling, Ferdinand W., 207

John A., 207

Margaret G., 208
Roeters, 174

Sandys (Sands), Arthur, 61, 65

Comfort, 63

Etta, 66

Ferdinand, 63

Henry, 62

James, 62

Joseph, 63

Miriam, 66
Schenck, Derick, 91

Diedrick, 91

Heinrich, 91

Martin, 92

Peter, 91

Roelef, 92
Scott, Orange, Rev., 193
Sehly, 170
Shepard, Annie C, 26

Frederick M., 24

John A., 24
Sneden, George V., 42

John, 41

Mary E., 42

Riviere H., 42

Samuel, 41

William S., 41
Speakman, Eleanor B., 100

Henry D., Rev., 100

Howard D., Dr., 100

Martha C, 100

William E., 99
Stevenson, Hannah, 249

James, 246, 247, 248
Stewart, Charles, 150
Stoutenborough, John, 90
Strycker, Jacobus G., 238

Jan, 237

Helen B., 240

William S., Gen., 237, 239

Taber, Philip, 128, 129

Thomas, 129
Tatem, Achsah W., 285

Joseph, 284

William P., 284
Teller, Wilhelmus, 175
Terry, Samuel, 184
Thomas, Gabriel, 148

Thomas, 148
Thompson, Charles H., Dr., 201, 202

Denise, 202

Fred V., 203

Rhoda A., 203

William I., 201
Trenchard, George, 250

James H., 249, 251

John, 249, 250
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY

Mary, 251
1 h< nnas, 249
Trewin, Edith H., 295
Elizabeth, 296
Thomas J., 295
William, 295

Uebelacker, Armin, Dr., 289
Charles F., 290
John G., 289
Mary C, 290

Van F'.aal, Jan, 176

Van Cortlandt, Oloff, 168

Steven, 168
Vanderpoel, Beach, 285

Beach, Jr., 286

Eleanor E., 287

Eugene, 286

James, 285

James, Dr., 286

William, 286

Wynant, 285

Wynant, Rev., 286
Van Rensselaer, llcer Kiliaen, 167

Jeremias, Col., 167

\ an Weely, [67

Yinhaegen, 177

\\ alsh, Benjamin, 2 i

Charles E., 206

Ella M., 206
White, Benjamin V'., ;

Margaret I [., ~$
Wistar, Caspar, 229
Wood, Henry, 127. [28

Mary II. 127, [28

Woodhull, 165
Woodward, Amos, 181

Edward S., 28, 29

Elvira, 30

Nathaniel, 177
Park, 178
Robert, 177
Thomas. 177
William A., 179

Zane, William P., 47
Zusi, Celestine B., 2yi
Edward, 290
Leonard B., 291
Norman E., 291

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